Facebook Email

wellboy76

Anyone have any more information.

Apparently they are bringing out a rival to Gmail

http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/11/facebook-gmail-titan/

woolymammoth

i read the headlines on it only. as far as i'm concerned, facebook should be wiped off the face of the planet! technically speaking though, it has good potential to take a large volume of users and the respective advertisement revenue from Google. It will not be a gmail killer though.

siobhan.murphy

will it be Femail

wellboy76

woolymammoth wrote: »

i read the headlines on it only. as far as i'm concerned, facebook should be wiped off the face of the planet! technically speaking though, it has good potential to take a large volume of users and the respective advertisement revenue from Google. It will not be a gmail killer though.

Like the way Buzz wont be a Facebook killer I suppose

Dman001

It might be a hit with causal email users. So as they check their Facebook profile, they can check their emails at the same time. Personally I'd hate to have an email address that ended in @facebook.com

woolymammoth

wellboy76 wrote: »

Like the way Buzz wont be a Facebook killer I suppose

haha! in a way i guess! Buzz was never going to be anything imho. It one of the great things about google, they're not afraid to try, and they build some realy great things, and some really bad ones. And they usually give you a lot of control over them. The first thing i did with buzz was disable it. Facebook mail will be big with anyone who never logs out of facebook. But given time it will probably become more generally accepted. I just wouldn't trust the bastards with my personal emails.

Razzuh

woolymammoth wrote: »

I just wouldn't trust the bastards with my personal emails.

+1

ED E

woolymammoth wrote: »

I just wouldn't trust the bastards with my personal emails.

Couldnt agree more, just look at the instability of chat. Even MS can get a chat client right.


Also, as above, @gmail.com is much nicer than @facebook.com IMO.

woolymammoth

Lethal_Bullet wrote: »

@gmail.com is much nicer than @facebook.com IMO.

completely agree. But you know how these things go, over time they become more acceptable. In < 5 years, a facebook email address will be normal, just as it was with hotmail.. yahoo.. gmail.. It's the young & impressionable kiddies that will have the biggest takeup of a facebook email account, driving it to be successful without any notion or care for what facebook will do with all that delicious personal information. I can only hope that facebook goes the way of myspace, we just have to figure out how to make it uncool! :pac:

Thomas_S_Hunterson

Lethal_Bullet wrote: »

Couldnt agree more, just look at the instability of chat. Even MS can get a chat client right.


Also, as above, @gmail.com is much nicer than @facebook.com IMO.

However Facebook recently acquired the fb.com domain...although it's unclear what they plan to do with it.

http://mashable.com/2010/11/12/facebook-fb-email/

Lazairus

I personally store all my music notes ,

heavy files on gmail ,



I would not like facebook for that reason.

Zascar

My guess is they will pull out something special and it will rival gmail after a while, don't forget they have the apps to plug into it so there are all sorts of possibilities. I'll deffo try it.

Getting a good email/username will be difficult so its worth signing up asap. Can someone please post here as soon as they see it launching so we all know??

Zascar

Happening in a few mins, livestream here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/15/facebook-announcement-live_n_783648.html