16 Reactions To New Facebook 'Messages' Service (PICTURES)

On Monday, Facebook announced its new 'Messages' service, which integrates email, SMS and instant messaging from other communication platforms.

The service (codenamed "Project Titan") aims to give users more control over their inbox by allowing customized viewing priorities and visible conversation histories.

Users will also be assigned an "@facebook.com" email address, but don't call this an "email killer," says Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

Although the service is invite-only (for now), users are already reacting to Facebook's announcement. See how 16 Twitterers responded to Facebook Messages, then share your thoughts with us in the comments below. Read on for a detailed overview of Facebook's new product.

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[Jim8]

04:35 PM on 11/16/2010

Some of had fun with MySpace until we realized where this could lead. I'd say that few of us have Facebook accounts.

[spartanmom]

12:44 PM on 11/16/2010

Is it just a coincidence that this morning my facebook account has been deactivated and that if I follow the links it takes me to a form that wants me to upload an image of my drivers's license?
Plus, the form is an http not an https.

Can you say security breach?

[viewsofatogal]

10:46 AM on 11/16/2010

Not sure if some people will take this too seriously...see DelectablyChic!'s perspective on this...

http://www.delectablychic.com/2010/11/facebookemail/

[Richard Lauren]

02:58 PM on 11/16/2010

Or from Mark himself.

http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/7692051/

[jwilmon]

10:29 AM on 11/16/2010

I got off FB a long time ago, will not respond to ANY e-mail/messenger whatever if it has an @facebook destination.
FB would then have my e-address....... if they don't already.

[Benjamin Rosenfeld]

09:20 AM on 11/16/2010

I can see it now, users complaining of Facebook deactivating their account for sending too many emails.

[DKLabRat]

07:52 AM on 11/16/2010

I'm confused. I would seem to already have at least two of these features on my current email program.

[richardjones81]

05:20 AM on 11/16/2010

I can't use Facebook email as my primary email, I have too much personal information on it. It would be ridiculous and naive to trust Facebook with my email after all the privacy issues. In fact, I am waiting for a safer social networking platform such as MyCube or Diaspora to launch so that I don't have to suffer from Facebook's privacy lapses.

[Howard53545]

04:58 AM on 11/16/2010

Goggle got to fight back now!!!! Facebook email is a game changer.

[balibali15]

02:08 AM on 11/16/2010

I wish Google wave was not ended, it had a lot of promise

[Amod Dange]

11:24 PM on 11/15/2010

Doomsday Scenario: You send a business email and the recipient decides to retrieve it in their Facebook account. Based on the many parameters already in the system, Facebook easily identifies your Facebook account and associates your BUSINESS EMAIL with it. Whether this information is published or not, Facebook has it. Now imagine having this depth of information about 500 million people. The social graph which has entertained you for 5 years has just become a life-recording machine that you cannot escape even after death. Have a nice day!

[drray23]

10:54 PM on 11/15/2010

And what exactly is groundbreaking there? Its just some code an intern could have written. Basically allows you to gather everything in one spot and apply filters. Big Deal. The only
advantage I see is not for the users, it is for facebook itself who can mine all of this information to sell to unscrupulous corporations.

[Jim8]

04:33 PM on 11/16/2010

The groundbreaking part is how they will use personal email to keep track of your personal wants so that they can target your ads more effectively.

[max08]

10:30 PM on 11/15/2010

WHO keeps the logs and data? Facebook Privacy Policy is that Facebook owns everything you put through its servers. Now it's going to have access to attachment sources?

People use Facebook for business. Makes Facebook completely untrustworthy. Who can trust an attorney who has a Facebook page, and will inadvertently use this system because the dork doesn't understand how to protect his firm's account?

[Nelson Montana]

10:04 PM on 11/15/2010

Facebook should be like a worldwide phonebook -- a place to find people. For that, it's great. But hopefully people will wise up to the fact that communicating with everyone and anyone openly is an incredible compromise to privacy and security. You have to be crazy to do it.

[GCurry]

09:40 PM on 11/15/2010

Being a Meyers-Briggs I***, meaning "Introvert," I don't care to chatter on about my life. Nor do I care to listen to others chatter on. I can't be alone. Probably about half of us are introverts, for all those extroverts. I'm a hair's breadth away from just shutting off my facebook account for those reasons.

Of what use is a messaging facility that only reaches half the world?

Furthermore, IMO, Facebook is acquiring a MSFT-ish scent, and I don't care to support their success.

So I'll pass on *.*@facebook.com, features or not.

[legalaid]

11:56 PM on 11/15/2010

Introverts unite! Often feels like EVERYONE is an extrovert these days.

[General Public]

02:08 AM on 11/16/2010

Yes, I am an introvert myself. Over the last few years I did develop a fake extrovert personality for dealing with other people, but it isn't the real me. I mostly only act extroverted online, but in real life, I tend to avoid other people and just stay at home most of the time because I'm rather shy and uncomfortable around other people or in new situations. But on the Internet, I can pretend not to be a shy introvert, and pretend to be an extrovert who does lots of exciting things and has a very interesting life. For some reason though, I've just never liked having to deal with other people in person, and my parents know very well that I displayed this tendency VERY early in childhood. I actually have a mild form of autism, Asperger Syndrome, and this is part of it. But I am thankful for the Internet for letting me pretend to be an interesting person who actually does things, and not some loner who almost never leaves the house and who only has very few friends, who have to try hard to reach me because I don't call them back if they leave voicemail so they have to get me to actually answer the phone. So yeah, in real life I am a total loner. On Facebook, I literally have over 3,000 friends. It is utterly ridiculous. I just added friends like crazy back when Facebook allowed it. I am a very strange person.

[Pied]

04:12 AM on 11/16/2010

I'm highly extroverted by nature as M-B agrees, and in my 20's.
I don't have a facebook account
I've never had a facebook account
I don't want a facebook account
I've never wanted a facebook account.

It's generally pretty shallow communication and I don't see the appeal.

[Peter Wu]

08:36 PM on 11/15/2010

With their attitude of "people have no privacy rights on facebook," who would want to sign up for their email. It would just be a way of getting lots of junk mail.

[General Public]

02:18 AM on 11/16/2010

Yes but Facebook would actually read all your mail. People have zero privacy on Facebook so unlike other email services where your email is private, Facebook email is "social", meaning Facebook employees and probably people who write Facebook applications or advertise on Facebook will be able to read your emails. On Facebook there is less privacy than at a nude beach. At least at a nude beach, you are not wearing a nametag and people do not have a history of everything you've ever said, and the only loss of privacy is of your body. On Facebook, the loss of privacy is much deeper than that; it is your inner self, and all of your thoughts and actions that become public knowledge. Yes, Facebook has some privacy controls, but this is only for other Facebook users, to control what they can see. Facebook employees can still see ANYTHING, regardless of your settings, and they snoop on people all the time. Mark Zuckerberg himself used to do it back when Facebook was small, and stalk all the people on his site by looking at their personal information and everything they had said or done on his site. For example, he would predict when couples were going to break up, as a game, based on analyzing their history of behavior on Facebook. I guarantee the junk mail will not be like junk mail on regular email, but more targeted, based on your interests as expressed on Facebook. Big Brother "Zuck" is watching.

[Richard Lauren]

03:03 PM on 11/16/2010

+1 So refreshing to see other people get it. Now we just to wait for those 500 million idiots to see some sense.