http://davetroy.com/posts/facebook-email-needs-to-grow-up Design, Entrepreneurship, Economics and Software Tue, 08 May 2012 16:58:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://davetroy.com/posts/facebook-email-needs-to-grow-up#comment-187 David Sterry Sun, 09 Nov 2008 03:22:26 +0000 http://davetroy.com/?p=105#comment-187 That's a neat idea. Maybe Zuckerberg is saving that for if ever his new law of doubling shared data starts to lag. Also, I'm fairly sure an @facebook.com email account or fbmail.com would have a handy side effect of pointing people back to one's profile. I'm trying to think of reasons why they wouldn't do this and I can't think of a good one...it is very close to their core communications mission. Nice post. That’s a neat idea. Maybe Zuckerberg is saving that for if ever his new law of doubling shared data starts to lag. Also, I’m fairly sure an @facebook.com email account or fbmail.com would have a handy side effect of pointing people back to one’s profile. I’m trying to think of reasons why they wouldn’t do this and I can’t think of a good one…it is very close to their core communications mission. Nice post.

]]> http://davetroy.com/posts/facebook-email-needs-to-grow-up#comment-186 Capri Sun, 09 Nov 2008 03:00:46 +0000 http://davetroy.com/?p=105#comment-186 I'd like it if Facebook email "grew up" so that FB wouldn't limit messages and delete or block access to accounts who've used it too much for their liking. They claim their email is not a method for chatting back and forth, FB chat is for that. But honestly, who uses FB chat anyway? The whole point of FB email is that people should leave and receive messages back and forth without limits, especially if they're making plans for events, business, whatever. Because most often when you get on Facebook, your friends aren't on at the same time, or if they are, they're doing something else, so disturbing them with a chat request does little more than interupt what they are doing, and what are the chances of planning anything using FB chat? With email, you can contact everyone you need to, and people can write you back at their convenience. At the very least, FB needs to get rid of whatever limit they put on their email messaging usage, but your ideas are great as well. I’d like it if Facebook email “grew up” so that FB wouldn’t limit messages and delete or block access to accounts who’ve used it too much for their liking. They claim their email is not a method for chatting back and forth, FB chat is for that. But honestly, who uses FB chat anyway? The whole point of FB email is that people should leave and receive messages back and forth without limits, especially if they’re making plans for events, business, whatever. Because most often when you get on Facebook, your friends aren’t on at the same time, or if they are, they’re doing something else, so disturbing them with a chat request does little more than interupt what they are doing, and what are the chances of planning anything using FB chat? With email, you can contact everyone you need to, and people can write you back at their convenience. At the very least, FB needs to get rid of whatever limit they put on their email messaging usage, but your ideas are great as well.

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