Facebook, faceBook facebOOk!! Even a 10 year old kid knows about it. If you say you don't know what facebook is, come on, you got to be kidding! Alright lets come to the point. Facebook Messages.... Sounds cool right. It is cool. Is it a Gmail killer? Is it the future of messaging? Well lets see.
Before you read the entire article goto http://www.facebook.com/about/messages/ and request for an invitation.
What is Facebook Messages?
There is chat and there are messages in Facebook. Someone at Facebook might have thought, how about merging both. Thats what Messages is all about. Chats with your friend it gets saved as a conversation. Send a message it queues up in the same thread. You chat or message him the next day it gets saved in the same thread again. Point i'm making here is, no matter what you do, you and your friend have only one thread for your conversation. Don't be disheartened. Its nice! You can continue your chat from where you left few hours ago or even few months ago(and if you haven't conversed for like years I don't know what will happen to Facebook messages and your friendship after so long).
Seems like you are getting excited about it. Read on...
After you get invitation for messages you get following benefits:
1. Your chats get saved.
2. You get a username@facebook.com email address.
3. You can opt for sending the message directly to your friend's cellphone via sms (Earlier it was sent by default).
4. Most important of all the conversation in a single thread.
Folders
There are two folders. "Spam box" is called "Others" here. Spam - messages from your friends(its minus not hyphen)=Others. So thats a great thing. No one other than your friends can spam your inbox(messages). What if my friend starts spamming? No worries, you can always tell Facebook to send all messages from that particular contact to "Others" folder.
Facebook Email
Facebook email lets you send/ receive messages from other email ids. Example: I can send messages from Gmail to Facebook directly.
Gmail Killer?
I would say No. MAy be. I prefer to send messages to my friends over Facebook these days. These are casual "Hi", "Hello" messages. What if you want to send your friend a excel speadsheet. Your friend can open it through google docs even without downloading it. Thats how good Gmail is! Imagine you send it over Facebook? Naa. I wouldn't want to do that. Facebook's offline messaging capabilities can't be matched with Gmail. So Gmail doesn't get killed. :D
Facebook messages seems to me the future of messaging(unless Google does something about it).
Here are few screenshots to clear your thoughts. Open them in a new window to view:
Thanks for reading. If you haven't yet got this feature just wait for few weeks(don't forget to request for an invitation if you are really excited about it).
I found a similar article on the web. Click here
You are welcome for comments. Please don't forget to hit one of the buttons below. I would say its "Cool".
Before you read the entire article goto http://www.facebook.com/about/messages/ and request for an invitation.
What is Facebook Messages?
There is chat and there are messages in Facebook. Someone at Facebook might have thought, how about merging both. Thats what Messages is all about. Chats with your friend it gets saved as a conversation. Send a message it queues up in the same thread. You chat or message him the next day it gets saved in the same thread again. Point i'm making here is, no matter what you do, you and your friend have only one thread for your conversation. Don't be disheartened. Its nice! You can continue your chat from where you left few hours ago or even few months ago(and if you haven't conversed for like years I don't know what will happen to Facebook messages and your friendship after so long).
Seems like you are getting excited about it. Read on...
After you get invitation for messages you get following benefits:
1. Your chats get saved.
2. You get a username@facebook.com email address.
3. You can opt for sending the message directly to your friend's cellphone via sms (Earlier it was sent by default).
4. Most important of all the conversation in a single thread.
Folders
There are two folders. "Spam box" is called "Others" here. Spam - messages from your friends(its minus not hyphen)=Others. So thats a great thing. No one other than your friends can spam your inbox(messages). What if my friend starts spamming? No worries, you can always tell Facebook to send all messages from that particular contact to "Others" folder.
Facebook Email
Facebook email lets you send/ receive messages from other email ids. Example: I can send messages from Gmail to Facebook directly.
Gmail Killer?
I would say No. MAy be. I prefer to send messages to my friends over Facebook these days. These are casual "Hi", "Hello" messages. What if you want to send your friend a excel speadsheet. Your friend can open it through google docs even without downloading it. Thats how good Gmail is! Imagine you send it over Facebook? Naa. I wouldn't want to do that. Facebook's offline messaging capabilities can't be matched with Gmail. So Gmail doesn't get killed. :D
Facebook messages seems to me the future of messaging(unless Google does something about it).
Here are few screenshots to clear your thoughts. Open them in a new window to view:
Thanks for reading. If you haven't yet got this feature just wait for few weeks(don't forget to request for an invitation if you are really excited about it).
I found a similar article on the web. Click here
You are welcome for comments. Please don't forget to hit one of the buttons below. I would say its "Cool".
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