Facebook Unveils Email Addresses, New Messaging Features

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the social network will be launching a revamped messaging product, 'Messages,' that will give users an "@facebook.com" email address.

Zuckerberg outlined three features that will define Facebook's new offering, which Zuckerberg described as "the way the future should work": Seamless messaging (users can chat with people through whatever medium they choose, be it SMS, email, or IM), conversation history ("see everything you've discussed with each friend as a single conversation"), and a social inbox for "filtering exactly the messages you want to see."

"This is not an email killer," Zuckerberg said. "This is a messaging system that includes email as one part of it."

Facebook's latest evolution of Messages ties in multiple forms of communication--SMS, IMs, email--from Facebook and other platforms to allow users to communicate in real-time, on-the-go through whichever messaging tool they prefer. "You decide how you want to talk to your friends: via SMS, chat, email or Messages. They will receive your message through whatever medium or device is convenient for them, and you can both have a conversation in real time," Facebook wrote in a blog post

Facebook will be rolling the product out over the coming months, initially via invite-only. All Facebook users will eventually be offered "@facebook.com" email addresses that match their public usernames, although they will have the option not to have an "@facebook.com" email account.

Facebook's Andrew Bosworth noted, "The system is definitely not email," adding, "We've it modeled more after chat."

Zuckerberg called email "slow" and also emphasized that the new product is "not email." "We don't think modern messaging system will be email," he noted, saying that he believes seven characteristics that we will come to define "next generation" messaging: seamless, informal, immediate, personal, simple, minimal, and short.

See what Messages will look like below.

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[offwrk007]

03:55 PM on 01/07/2011

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[Wes1]

11:12 AM on 11/18/2010

People will soon realize the dangers of facebook, if they haven't already. It's a shame we live in a world where people are so uninformed, and care-free about their privacy.

[Wes1]

11:07 AM on 11/18/2010

I got rid of Facebook over a year ago, because I disagree with so many aspect of it. I'll never return, ever... so it will either fail, or I'll be off the proverbial grid. I refuse to subscribe and perpetuate the "look at meeeeeee" movement.

[NelsonBig]

01:18 PM on 11/18/2010

Can I "Like" this comment?

[Benjamin Rosenfeld]

02:52 PM on 11/19/2010

If you want to get off of the "proverbial grid," then you will also have to stop posting on here.

[gnorrfa]

04:18 PM on 11/17/2010

i find the whole idea of "facebook" as sinister and narcissistic. that ought to put this into "pending."

[faceturkey]

02:30 PM on 11/18/2010

Oh wow FB, and when that catches on, it will be another product of yours I don't use. adres:
http://faceturkey.com

[SallyShears]

02:15 PM on 11/17/2010

He says this isn't meant to be an "email killer" but then goes on to say he sees this as replacing email as a better form of seamless communication, so that doesn't exactly parse out. Guaranteed this is a stab at Google (and their Gmail product). There's a long standing issue with FB not letting people import their contacts into their Gmail account, even though Gmail let's FB do it.

Zuckerburg wants his product to be THE ONLY communication tool you need.

[Amit Misra]

02:33 AM on 11/17/2010

No, I do agree that Fb is having its own set of advantages but people ( specially serious communicators) should pay attention to something which talks about the whether u shld shift to Fb or not. Read an article on dazeinfo.com "Think before you jump to Facebook"

[LCLA]

11:23 PM on 11/16/2010

"Zuckerberg ... saying that he believes seven characteristics that we will come to define "next generation" messaging: seamless, informal, immediate, personal, simple, minimal, and short."

I notice that private or confidential is not on Zuckerberg's list. :(

[Renaissance619]

07:35 PM on 11/16/2010

(without a social contract, human life would be) brutal, nasty and short [hobbes: leviathan], and I expect the same of facebook's new communication paradigm (cree-pee!)

[mrsid]

07:03 PM on 11/16/2010

i already have 3 email addresses....just don't need another one....

[flamenco]

05:46 PM on 11/16/2010

I'll admit that I can stand the way this guy talks, so if there's a video of him, I simply avoid it.

I suspect that this "thing" they've created is similar to Google Wave, which combines a bunch of ways of emailing, chatting, doing the social network nonsense, etc. I enjoyed playing with it, it's impressive technology, but I won't be using it. I already waste enough time on the computer.

[laaambchop]

01:10 PM on 11/16/2010

OT, but perhaps someone on here can tell me why they disabled my acct---my real name on it---with no warning...and looks like i am not the only one"

http://www.contacthelp.com/comment_list.php?listing=324

do they really expect people to upload photo ID's???

[chanceofrainne]

01:09 PM on 11/16/2010

Are they trying to be the new AOL?

[entheogens]

12:49 PM on 11/16/2010

I understand some of the complaints about Facebook. It has its shortcomings, but it IS what you make of it. I have found so many old friends that I never thought I would be able to find again through Facebook that I don't think I could ever completely condemn it. Yes, it does not lend itself (usually) to deep conversation. Know what? You got more to say, give the person a call, write them an email, send the snail mail or, IMAGINE THIS, go see them in person! As far as I know, Facebook does not prevent you from doing any of those things.

[imonlyhereforthelaughs]

12:24 PM on 11/16/2010

Pass.

[femmyror]

12:14 PM on 11/16/2010

Get a facebook email address? Ah-hell-no!