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New Facebook Messaging System Announced
Mark Zuckerberg just held a presentation to unveil Facebook's "next generation messaging" system. He repeatedly drove home the idea that "this is not email," nor is it "an email killer." Their plan is to tie together multiple forms of communication — email, texts, social updates, etc. — and blend them into conversations. As users go about their days, interacting with a variety of devices, the communication method automatically updates to whatever is appropriate at the time. If a user receives an email while he's at a desktop, browsing Facebook, it will bring up the message in a Facebook chat window. If the user is browsing on a smartphone, it will bring up the message there, instead. If it's a dumbphone, then a text message can be sent. Another central feature is the idea that conversation histories from multiple sources and different forms of communication can be integrated through Facebook, so that you no longer have to separately root through IM logs, SMS logs, old emails, etc., to see old correspondence. (Users will have the ability to delete these, should they desire.) The last major feature they mentioned is what they call the "social" inbox, which is based on whitelisting. Users will be able to set up primary inboxes which only display communications they definitely want to see, while leaving low-priority messages, spam, and all the other noise typical to email in an inbox they check less frequently. The new system will be rolled out slowly over the next few months.
Maybe somebody will figure out how to use it this time around.
Another way to talk to people I never see in person!
Facebook is the only technologically literate company to get Social Networking correct. Where all others have failed, Facebook has broken through the weeds into the clearing and are far ahead of everyone else. Even the mighty Google failed with Buzz and now Facebook is doing something new and original by introducing a messaging system that is not designed to replace e-mail. Hopefully, if they get this correct, they will be able to log and store all your messages so that you never lose them even after you get drunk or high and try to delete them!
Zuckerberg has really turned it around with this move and let me be the first to welcome Zuckerberg to my browser where my industrious and productive Farmville makes every visitor happy. The future is here. The future is now. The future is Facebook.
"Duhhhhh...." - Jason Priestly
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"As users go about their days, interacting with a variety of devices,"
instead of humans.
Yours In Novosibirsk,
K. Trout
People goaded me that all of my friends would never migrate to the Diaspora I am running at home, but I won the challenge -- right after the install was complete, they already had
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Don't diss the potential of this.
This will allow people to receive a constant stream of idiotic Farmville/Mafiawars/Cafeworld updates all day long wherever they happen to be. Think of the potential this has to increase productivity in the field of lost productivity.
If libertarians are so opposed to effective government, why don't they all move to Somalia?
"Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has just done the Internet equivalent of starting a land war in Asia"
Fail? :)
Finally, a clear path to wealth and power!! I'm off to GoDaddy to see if I can get www.lookatmysandwich.com registered quickly before it gets snapped up. Score!
u mad.
Does it have a 'real' delete button?
Eh, I usually send out only three types of email anyway:
1. No, that design will fail.
2. The estimate doesn't have enough hours.
3. I told you three months ago that the design would fail and the plan didn't have enough hours.
So go ahead.
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Doesn't matter. I own www.lollookatmysandwich.com and I'm very litigious.
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Facebook wants all your messages so they can mine them for any possible personal information and sell it to the highest bidders. Is anyone surprised?
I've read (in print) and heard (from unreliable sources) that Facebook's data mining has been instrumental in custom politicking, or "political engineering" (no, I did not hear this from right-wing types), in particular the site's relationship with the Obama administration involves even personally identifying information being shared through direct channels - rather than through typical avenues afforded the average end-user, such as Obama teams simply monitoring the site like anyone else. Could anyone verify this? Google isn't turning up many answers. Last I heard about this was Facebook wasn't killing its cookies when someone would leave that site for the White House site, which is supposedly a statute violation, but there were no follow-ups after that story broke.
If what this Slashdot user is saying is true, the "highest bidder" would just be the government.... right?
Sounds like someone has a case of the Mondays.
You obviously don't see the benefits of this.
Since it is quite popular right now to play out technology in I/m-a-Mac/PC-style skits, I wrote one for you:
Messy, the message integration -a cool looking Hipster stands in front of a presentation console:
"Hi, I'm facebook's message integration. Cool, everything integrated and in one place.
Right now, User is giving a presentation of the monthly project update to Grumpy-boss and I help him find information faster.
Wait? Boss wants project stats? This is so cool, I can find that for you."
A farmer in dirty coveralls walks in: "Hi neighbor, it' s Jim from Farmville. Just wanna let you know, that your tomatoes are about to wilt."
Messy: Ooopsy. Let's filter for "boss"
A slightly drunk frat boy walks in: "You are so right! That guy's a total loser. But my boss is even worse than.. "
Messy cuts him off, hits a couple buttons.
A woman in lingerie and high black boots walks in: "Hi. I am the pictures you downloaded last night."
Messy begins to sweat and starts hitting the console
An older woman in a raindeer sweater walks in: "I'm an email from your mom. Who is that nice woman you just put on your facebook page?"