Friday, March 18, 2011

Facebook Email and Messaging Review

We have heard about Facebook's plans to bring up messaging service to an improved level. Well, let's take a comprehensive review of this new "feature" that will be hitting your account soon.

The first thing you want to know, is "what's Facebook's email?". Facebook's team (or Zuckerberg) decided to give a little improvement to Facebook's messaging utility. According to a press note I watched on Facebook Live, he said messaging turned the way around after Facebook was invented. And it is true.

People a few years back, used to take the time to write an entire e-mail to communicate with people if they were not online. Now, greetings and birthday's congratulations are posted on your wall instead.

So Facebook decided it was a good idea to use your messages as your personal Facebook mailbox. Your email address will match your public username from Facebook.

Profile: facebook.com/username
Email: username@facebook.com 


Here's what you'll see once you click on Messages before "claiming" your email.


I also remember Zuckerberg talking about conversation history, and how this can now be stored, since all of them will basically be one.


Conversations can now be seen either by chat, or through the messaging window as shown above.


You can send emails to any email address in the world (Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, etc). However, you can't modify the Subject yet, and will be sent as a conversation copy.


It pretty much applies the same if sending it viceverse, you just need to input your Facebook email address, and will be sent.


As mentioned, messages are sent by default to the "Other" messages folder. Hopefully, we will be able to manage just like an Outlook Web Account in Facebook, then we will be talking.