Facebook Email Announcement

Facebook made a big "email" announcement recently stating that you will be able to get an @facebook.com email address.

However, CEO Mark Zuckerberg explained that it's not all about email, it’s actually about "seamless" integration across email, IM, SMS, and all these ways of communication.

It's also about "conversation history", meaning you can keep a running dialogue with everybody you communicate with in a continuous thread for each person or each group of people.

"Five years from now, you're just going to have this full, rich history," Zuckerberg says of the conversation history feature. Facebook's Andrew Bosworth compared it to having a box full of letters between boyfriend and girlfriend from the beginning of the relationship to the present, although users do have the ability to delete conversations.

Finally, it's also about a "social inbox", which is where message prioritisation comes in.

Facebook will use the information it knows about who your friends are (based on the user's friends list and their friends' friends list) to prioritise the messages it thinks you'll be really interested in.

The concept is not so much about spam filtering, but actually filtering for the messages from the people who you really care about. "There are a lot of different classes of junk," says Zuckerberg, suggesting that there are a lot of legitimate messages that you don't actually care what they are saying.

It will place priority on friends and friends’ friends. There will then be another folder that will have stuff like bills, pages liked, etc. It's not spam, but not stuff you care about as much as the friends' messages (although, I'd suggest bills might deserve higher priority than some of the stuff your friends [or especially friends of friends] are saying). Then there's the junk folder for spam.

Source: Web Pro News