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Facebook Inbox Throws Blow At Google... No Flinch?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the there-can-be-only-two dept.

CWmike writes "Facebook's new messaging system may not be a Gmail killer, but it's definitely another blow in the growing battle between two Internet bigwigs. Facebook took the wraps off what it's calling a modern messaging system on Monday. The new system is designed to handle the convergence of different kinds of messages — Facebook messages, IMs, SMS and e-mail — and bring them together under a single social umbrella. The system also allows users to have a facebook.com email address, though it will work with other e-mail systems like Gmail and Yahoo. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is adamant that it's not intended to replace e-mail, but industry analysts say the new system will almost certainly draw some users away from Yahoo mail and Google's Gmail. Meanwhile, Google CEO Eric Schmidt told Computerworld that he's not worried at all about Facebook's new 'Social Inbox.' 'More competition is always good because it makes the market larger,' Schmidt said, charging that journalists were hyping the rivalry: 'As a group, you all are focused on the competition rather than the market getting larger. It brings more people in. We are all served by having everybody in the world get online.'"

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  1. Re:Facebook by BitZtream · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I'm forced to use it more and more because of friends and family

    Really? Forced? They hold a gun to your head and say 'sign into facebook right now and add me as a friend or I'll kill you'? I mean, that would be forcing you to do it.

    You choosing to play the attention whoring game that is facebook and saying you're are 'forced' is just a cop out.

    If your friends and family can't be bothered to contact you directly, they aren't your friends, they are just people you know.

    You'll find GMail and its integrated inbox a lot more useful when you stop trying to use a web based client for IM and email. Web based is useful when you're away from your properly configured computers, but to use it every day shows you really aren't that heavy of a user.

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  2. Re:Uh huh ... by ScrewMaster · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Troll, huh. Humorless bastards.

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