Wow. It’s just like Gmail except it’s going to change the UI and interface every single day! Plus, you get Farmville updates right in your inbox!
#WIN!
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Just kidding folks.
Dubbed “Project Titan” it seems that very soon you may have that new shiny @facebook.com email address. Not too sure how I honestly feel about it but we’ll see.
Game changer? Thoughts?
Tom Schneller says
According to the Oatmeal ranking of “What your email address says about your computer skills”, I’d guess that the new Facebook email address will fall in place not quite as cool as gmail, but better than having a hotmail address. http://theoatmeal.com/comics/email_address
Bill Robbins says
Giving people with a strong privacy abuse reputation all our emails sounds like a massive fail to me.
Graham Brenna says
oh man… I don’t want one. But I feel like I should probably have one… I just added a couple more admin email addresses onto my droid yesterday. So now I have 5 with me all the time… that’s too much. Too much I say!
Rodlie says
Yeah I’ll be getting mine. Just wondering what you recommend, though. If you could would you just get your first name, or do you think it’s good to get first and last?
youngdesign says
No doubt you’ll be given an email according to your vanity url, ie: facebook.com/yourusername = [email protected]
mandythompson says
This is painfully inevitable. I recently learned that a significant incoming college freshmen do not have an email address… All of their communicating goes through facebook.
I hope they get their security concerns taken care of soon, because facebook is slowly dominating the social media/communications world.
Yong says
As a former MySpace employee, I was there when we rolled out the @myspace.com email addresses to all users. It was mildly successful, which was a major accomplishment for MySpace. I have no doubt FB users will embrace this service much more so.
As a youth worker myself, I often find myself communicating to my youth students through FB messaging. Why? Because most of them change their email addresses as often as they change their hairstyles. But their FB profile stays the same. Besides texts and direct phone calls, FB has unfortunately been the most reliable form of communication. So it’s only obvious they’ll roll out an @facebook.com email addy to everyone.
To address Rodlie’s comment, your Facebook email address will most likely reflect your Facebook vanity URL. For example, if you’re FB URL is facebook.com/rodlie, your email address will most likely be [email protected]. If FB does what MySpace did, they might offer a one-time change to your vanity URL.
To sum, this will be a hit. I’m sure I’ll have my own @facebook.com addy set up. But like everyone else who is concerned about privacy, especially knowing this is from Facebook, I won’t be using this as my primary, or even my secondary.
matt says
Sounds like another inbox to fill up with spam… I wonder if they’ll let me filter out emails from @facebook.com?
BenJPickett says
I guess for those that spend an excessive amount of time on facebook it will be very useful and an attractive offer. Maybe even a time saver.
Don’t think I’ll get one. It would just end up being another email account I wouldn’t check.
Tony Alicea says
Not interested…at all.
Stacey says
#StabMyself
The longer Facebook lives, the more it resembles MySpace without the blinking unicorns. I agree with most everyone else that this is prolly a bad idea.
Tim Owens says
“Tim has invited you to plant crops on his blinking unicorn farm. Please join Tim in this adventurous game!”
At least Myspace didn’t really have that…
Stacey says
HA! You must have the same crystal ball I do. You’re right though, MySpace didn’t have games. Of course, it’s up to you to decide if that is because 1) Zynga had not been born yet, or 2) enough money was being made with customized blinking unicorn profile skins. 😉
Kyle Reed says
seems like a challenge laid down towards gmail.
facebook is lame though.
I am sure it will be filled with farmville request over actual information that is pertinent
Trevor Taylor says
Um, no. Or, they have to at least prove they are MORE functional and useful than Gmail. Then maybe a consideration.
wvpv says
Boo. If it rolls out and I can’t add it as an account in Gmail then, it’ll be a fail in my book.
Phill Tran says
Funny thing is that my wife does not like it when I email her too much. She says it’s impersonal.
However, chatting via facebook is A okay. lol
#gofigure
Stacey says
What does that say about my wife and I Facebooking each other when we’re in the same room?
Jimmy King says
This is just feature bloat. Every time they roll a new feature out, I get closer to deleting my account.
Chris Loach says
why? why? why?
Joanna says
Not sure that i’d trust facebook with important emails, ether of important as in private or important as in must get through to me.
Lance M. says
Ooooo… shiny.
Ben Cotten says
Using a company as your primary or secondary email provider requires a lot of trust. I don’t trust Facebook much at all. They seem to make decisions without much consideration of what is best for the end user. And, like others have already said, I’m not convinced they won’t go the way of MySpace in the future.
All it would take is a few blunders while a new and shinier social network appears on the scene. I just don’t see that happening with Google.
Non-techie Talk says
Not interested. Facebook code can be brutal – is there a worse chat application on this planet than Facebook’s?
I find the entire FB interace a cluttered dog’s breakfast of a space and shudder to think of the polar opposite their interpretation of email will be vs the clean crisp cool – and most of all, efficient – environment that is gmail.
I get it, though – there are those who only communicate via Facebook, for now. For that segment of the population, have fun, while it lasts. Shucks, if hotmail is still being used by people (I’m certainly not one of them) then there is room for variety in the marketplace.