Facebook Lauches Emails but Calls It Something Else?!?

Facebook is set to launch a new “modern messaging system,” said CEO Mark Zuckerberg at a press event this morning in San Francisco. Zuckerberg says that more than four billion messages are currently sent through Facebook each day. He also shared that Facebook believes that modern messaging is seamless, informal, immediate, personal, simple and minimal. “It’s not e-mail,” he said. The new messaging system is composed of three parts: seamless messaging, conversation history and the social inbox. The latter is an inbox for filtering the messages you want to see from friends. Interestingly enough, Facebook is handing out facebook.com e-mail addresses to all users. The system, however, is really modeled after chat according to Andrew Bosworth. “People should share however they want to share,” he says. Zuckerberg also talked about how people use messaging systems today. In conversations with high schoolers, Zuckerberg recounted that these youngsters told him that e-mail is too slow and that they prefer SMS and Facebook to sending e-mails. As soon as the event was announced last week, speculation ran rampant that Facebook would be overhauling their messaging system and releasing their own e-mail service to compete with the likes of Gmail. More to come…

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