Zuckerberg revealed today:
- 350 million users make use of Facebook messages
- Sending 4 billion messages a day — that’s personal messages, not messages from Pages or Groups.
The 3 things talked about during the presentation
1. Seamless messaging (messaging across IM, email and other platforms)
2. Conversation history
3. The social inbox (new organization and fights spam by users your friends as filters)
@Facebook Email Address Confirmed
So yes, you do get a Facebook email (after all that hype). The address will match your username. The thing is it’s not really like email, it’s a lot more like messages or chat.
Message History
Your whole social inbox for: Facebook messages, Facebook email, chat, and push notification will go through the same system and all collectively be available to you to view under the contacts name.
Social Inbox
“Technology should get out of the way. There should only be two things: people and messages.”
This is the key and the biggest struggle Facebook had. Integrating everything into 1 clean inbox which i’ll explain below.
The organization of your new Facebook social inbox
Your social inbox is now your inbox for messages, SMS (you add your number to your Facebook profile) and emails, plus history for all. You will have 3 inbox’s
1. Friends, and friends of friends. (Only friends on your Facebook, and their friends will show up in this box)
2. Other (Everyone who’s not spam will show up here)
3. Junk (Many people were worried about facebook.com/yourname urls being crawlable (bots finding them easily). Facebook is fighting this by using a social graph. Only friends or friends of friends will be able to email you.)
My Take, and Questions Answered
*The good thing is you can very easily interchange who shows up in your other and friends inbox. You can add specific friends to the other folder, and anyone from the other folder to show up in your friends folder.
*The main idea is the organization and filters you have ie: your friends/ friend of friends but also filters in your settings should stop you from getting any spam at all, especially once you play around with who’s in your “others” list etc..
*My major question, which was asked at the end of the announcement. “What if i get an email from someone i don’t have on Facebook? How is this integrated.”
Answer: A message from someone you don’t have on Facebook (grandmother, or annoying coworker) will show up in your “Other” folder. Which you can easily move to your “Friends” folder. Once moved they’re email will always show up in the new folder you moved them to. Facebook explained the “Friends Inbox” as something you check multiple times a day, and the “Other Inbox” as something you check once a day.
*How do you e-mail Mark Zuckerberg, the Facebook press team, or the Facebook advertising team now? Well they now have FB.com for themselves.
*This will be starting with an invite system
- 350 million users make use of Facebook messages
- Sending 4 billion messages a day — that’s personal messages, not messages from Pages or Groups.
The 3 things talked about during the presentation
1. Seamless messaging (messaging across IM, email and other platforms)
2. Conversation history
3. The social inbox (new organization and fights spam by users your friends as filters)
@Facebook Email Address Confirmed
So yes, you do get a Facebook email (after all that hype). The address will match your username. The thing is it’s not really like email, it’s a lot more like messages or chat.
Message History
Your whole social inbox for: Facebook messages, Facebook email, chat, and push notification will go through the same system and all collectively be available to you to view under the contacts name.
Social Inbox
“Technology should get out of the way. There should only be two things: people and messages.”
This is the key and the biggest struggle Facebook had. Integrating everything into 1 clean inbox which i’ll explain below.
The organization of your new Facebook social inbox
Your social inbox is now your inbox for messages, SMS (you add your number to your Facebook profile) and emails, plus history for all. You will have 3 inbox’s
1. Friends, and friends of friends. (Only friends on your Facebook, and their friends will show up in this box)
2. Other (Everyone who’s not spam will show up here)
3. Junk (Many people were worried about facebook.com/yourname urls being crawlable (bots finding them easily). Facebook is fighting this by using a social graph. Only friends or friends of friends will be able to email you.)
My Take, and Questions Answered
*The good thing is you can very easily interchange who shows up in your other and friends inbox. You can add specific friends to the other folder, and anyone from the other folder to show up in your friends folder.
*The main idea is the organization and filters you have ie: your friends/ friend of friends but also filters in your settings should stop you from getting any spam at all, especially once you play around with who’s in your “others” list etc..
*My major question, which was asked at the end of the announcement. “What if i get an email from someone i don’t have on Facebook? How is this integrated.”
Answer: A message from someone you don’t have on Facebook (grandmother, or annoying coworker) will show up in your “Other” folder. Which you can easily move to your “Friends” folder. Once moved they’re email will always show up in the new folder you moved them to. Facebook explained the “Friends Inbox” as something you check multiple times a day, and the “Other Inbox” as something you check once a day.
*How do you e-mail Mark Zuckerberg, the Facebook press team, or the Facebook advertising team now? Well they now have FB.com for themselves.
*This will be starting with an invite system
