it seems that every time I go back to my Gmail my mailbox size has increased. Last week I was using 16MB of 2048MB. Now its creeping up and tells me I have used 16MB of 2089MB

Is this a game of keeping up with the Jones? Is there someone out there claiming to offer a bigger mailbox? Or is Google trying to encourage us to use Gmail so much that we can’t live without it and lock us in?

UPDATE: If you go to the login page, you can see the size increase in real time