Facebook Email Service To Be Announced At Today's Facebook Event?

UPDATE: Facebook will be live streaming its press conference. Watch the Facebook announcement live here.
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An "@facebook.com" email address could be yours soon.

The blogosphere is buzzing with speculation that Facebook will unveil an email service at an Facebook event scheduled to take place November 15 at 10AM PT.

TechCrunch wrote last week that anonymous sources suggested that the social network was preparing a "web-based email client that we hear is unofficially referred to internally as its 'Gmail killer.'"

Inside Facebook said the rumored email service was dubbed "Project Titan" by Facebook employees and speculates the social network could "be giving users an @facebook.com email address to which email could be sent and read within the messages product, as well as POP and IMAP support for reading your Facebook inbox from other email clients."

AOL went on the offensive ahead of Facebook's Monday press conference, opening up its new, revamped email service, code-named Project Phoenix (Learn more here).

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[t43700]

09:56 PM on 11/15/2010

Great - I need another email address like I need another ex-wife....

[xultar]

03:16 PM on 11/15/2010

I. Hate. Facebook. With. My. Entire. Being.

[Tony Phong Senser]

04:03 PM on 11/15/2010

loser!

[himalayanvoice]

03:09 PM on 11/15/2010

This is okay. I will take it.

[andrew alfano starbucks]

02:36 PM on 11/15/2010

interesting

[zeiben]

02:31 PM on 11/15/2010

Listen Zuckertwerp - you're not Steve Jobs, and I'll put a fork in a toaster before I put any email I care about in your company's hands

[Jay Goldstein]

01:58 PM on 11/15/2010

Any idea anyone how much they paid to the Farm Bureau for fb.com? I bet a fortune. Like they said in The Social Network, "in the grand scheme of things, consider it a speeding ticket"

[Jay Goldstein]

01:55 PM on 11/15/2010

I wish Google Wave took off, but this probably will instead. I will use it

[joymora]

01:23 PM on 11/15/2010

Yes, I would use a facebook email, but it's not a gmail killer since i won't use it as my official email simply because I won't want employers, or in some cases colleagues to find me on FB. FB is my personal space for me and my friends and there is stuff in there I wouldn't want to share with those people.

[depasquale5]

01:04 PM on 11/15/2010

Facebook is shallow and for the self-serving. It is for men who like variation and ego boosts and aggressive (crazy drama) Bachelor watching women. People are so empty that that literally go on Facebook to steal a.k.a "get to know", peoples husbands and wives. Facebook is lame! Sick of friends taking pictures for their Facebook Accounts, when yo are trying to chill!

[born 2b different]

01:40 PM on 11/15/2010

Generalize much?

[uncc49er]

12:36 PM on 11/15/2010

What do these kids really think? Do they expect me to throw away my privacy, so a twenty something years old kid gets rich?

[JNettesheim]

12:21 PM on 11/15/2010

If they do release an email service, it would definitly kill GMail just with the sheer numbers of people that would use it because "everyone is using it".

[jasonsabio]

01:30 PM on 11/15/2010

I doubt it. I don't know many people who want all there information and communications controlled by one source. And considering Facebook's opinions on privacy, I definitely don't want them controlling all my prersonal emails.

[Viper1st]

11:06 AM on 11/15/2010

Facebook can't even keep my private secure info being accessed by unauthorized persons -

Not gonna trust Facebook with my emails - lack credibility

[SouthernJewel]

10:56 AM on 11/15/2010

I haven't signed into my Facebook in over four weeks...oh well.
I guess this means my life doesn't revolve around FB.

[LDMerriam]

10:39 AM on 11/15/2010

Facebook lacks the brand permission or product purpose to make this a success: http://bit.ly/dfYdWI