With over 500 million users, Facebook is the most popular social networking website on the planet right now, rivaling with giants like Google and others. Recently, Marck Zuckerberg announced a new service that will rival with Google, Yahoo and other email providers’ services, the Facebook Message. This is a new approach of emails while it aims to create a single hub that gathers under its roof texts, chats and emails.
With over 193 million users, Gmail is seriously feeling threatened by this new service which seems as a perfect alternative to it. However Marck does not expect people to shut down their Gmail/Ymail accounts and jump into this new boat but in time, things are about to be changing, he added. On the other hand, AOL’s official Brad Garlinghouse disagrees that traditional email is about to be doomed while it is way more popular and useful than a profile on a social networking site, regarding on how big this last one is.
Basically, all Facebook’s registered users will benefit from an @facebook.com email address that will gather text messages, instant messages chat or email into one large feed named “social inbox”. Over 70% of Facebook users send messages regularly and this new technology can dramatically make things easier for those persons communicating through different channels, whether we are talking about emails or instant messaging.
This new service features three folders for incoming messages – one for buddies, one for important things like bank details and a junk folder for junk messages. All conversations will be kept in a complete archive. In less words, this new service is meant to rival with top 3 emails providers : Google, Yahoo and Microsoft, all three handling over 750million registered users.
Some users will definitely switch to this service, some will both accept this new email service and their previous one, whether it is Google or Yahoo, and others will still be afraid of the latest rumors regarding Facebook problems with users’ privacy. Only time will tell if this service will really become a hit among Internet users or even an email killer, as some voices are already mentioning it.