Facebook Email a Threat to Google?

[ChrWright]

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/google/facebook-email-is-this-actually-an-enterprise-play/2621

...Adding email services to Facebook will make Gmail irrelevant for a whole lot of people. Gmail only has 193 million users compared to Facebook’s 500 million. Now that Google no longer allows the automatic importing of contacts into Facebook, many users may be more than happy to leave the hassle of multiple accounts behind and simply use Facebook’s internal services.

more... (http://www.zdnet.com/blog/google/facebook-email-is-this-actually-an-enterprise-play/2621)

I call BS. Trust Facebook with my email and contacts? Don't think so.

[WarriorWithWood]

I agree, there's no way I would put all of my contacts on a site with known privacy issues.

[ChrWright]

http://www.gmanews.tv/story/205923/facebook-may-launch-own-email-service


Facebook may launch own email service

The grapevine is abuzz with rumors that Facebook will be launching its own webmail to compete directly with GMail and Yahoo Mail. How might Filipinos respond to this new service?

A few days ago, technology blog TechCrunch speculated that Facebook is set to launch a web-based email client on November 15, Monday (Tuesday in the Philippines).

TechCrunch said that Facebook may be able to leverage its existing strengths in media sharing and social networking, possibly integrating these into its email service.

"Facebook has the world’s most popular photos product, the most popular events product, and soon will have a very popular local deals product as well. It can tweak the design of its webmail client to display content from each of these in a seamless fashion," said TechCrunch's Jason Kincaid.

"And there’s also the social element: Facebook knows who your friends are and how closely you’re connected to them; it can probably do a pretty good job figuring out which personal emails you want to read most and prioritize them accordingly," he added.


more... (http://www.gmanews.tv/story/205923/facebook-may-launch-own-email-service)

[y.painting]

I call BS. Trust Facebook with my email and contacts? Don't think so.

But your kids will!

[JasonW]

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/google/facebook-email-is-this-actually-an-enterprise-play/2621



more... (http://www.zdnet.com/blog/google/facebook-email-is-this-actually-an-enterprise-play/2621)

I call BS. Trust Facebook with my email and contacts? Don't think so.

Like they already don't have that info from your contacts there already? :laugh3:

[RCP]

That's one reason I don't use any of the apps on FB. Anytime a third party wants to access my FB account, I "don't allow". I use a non gmail email acct.

[angus242]

That's one reason I don't use any of the apps on FB. Anytime a third party wants to access my FB account, I "don't allow".

Exactly!!!