An email announcing an opening in a charter school for Heather Davis-Jones' daughter Shakia is pictured at their residence in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania February 9, 2013. REUTERS/Tim Shaffer/Files
Google hastily removed an April Fools' Day feature that allowed Gmail users to send e-mails and not see the replies, after the joke fell very flat with some people.
The prank, called "Mic Drop," gave users the option of sending e-mails through a special send button that – if the person replied – did not show the response. Users could ignore the feature, but some apparently clicked in error on the special button instead of the usual button.
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