Comments on: Church Communication Best Practices: Facebook + Email + Ministry?

By: Email Eulogy | eyespeak | creative and code

Email Eulogy | eyespeak | creative and code — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 16:41:41 +0000

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By: Wayne Cordova

Wayne Cordova — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 14:30:49 +0000

Most people I know still use whatever email address that was given to them from their ISP.

When I start telling some people about the free email addresses they can get through GMail, Yahoo, Hotmail, etc. They act like it’s too complicated. (sure “we” know it’s not, but still.)

I don’t think most of the general public would use Facebook as an email source. If anything it’ll be used for the same purpose the Facebook inbox is already used for.

Didn’t MySpace already try this?

By: Jenn Hudson

Jenn Hudson — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 06:33:48 +0000

Pastor/Dad and I just had a conversation about this last week. most of his member communication is through facebook (it IS the new white pages) — and he is still using his original AOL account.

We are looking for the Facebook takeover someday, just like we are a one world government. -ha-. It’s probably inevitable.

I am a traditionalist and will keep my primary gmail & yahoo pop, thank you, and NOT at all a fan of emailing through facebook right now.

But if Facebook, gave me a POP address and all my google filtering preferences and if “everyone else were doing it” – I would probably be likely to click the kill switch on my gmail.

By: PhillipGibb

PhillipGibb — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:47:20 +0000

makes life easy if you have a gizzilion friends. And if you are targeting groups of people. Essentially you would have access to a million email addresses that you could send unsolicited email to. used strategically and fairly that can be very good, but spam could could go to a whole new level with this.

By: Aaron Melton

Aaron Melton — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:23:25 +0000

As a few people have alluded already, “just makes sense” depends on the demographic you’re trying to reach. I seriously doubt it will even come close to taking “market share” away from Gmail — but let’s face it. ANYTHING Facebook does to improve its messaging service will only make it better (because it is anything BUT good right now).

Alternatively, it appears the Empire is about to strike back: http://bit.ly/bwieLq

And am I the only one left wondering that if Facebook starts an email service, are you still required to have an outside email to join-up?

By: uberVU - social comments

uberVU - social comments — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 02:31:16 +0000

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By: John Saddington

John Saddington — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:59:29 +0000

you win. “facemail” is epic.

By: Alex Morrison

Alex Morrison — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:56:40 +0000

Word. I’ll use FBmail if it has a catchy “You’ve got Facemail” jingle.

By: youngdesign

youngdesign — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:51:55 +0000

The fact that 10 people sign-up to Facebook every SECOND cannot be denied.

Clearly something is making people ‘hop on’.

By: Kyle Reed

Kyle Reed — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 23:33:53 +0000

It seems to unreliable. Are people going to get updates on when they have gotten a new email from facebook? seems to defeat the purpose. I do not see people checking their facebook messages as much as they check their email. Therefore, I am not interested nor do I think it will kill gmail.