Facebook email is live

https://www.facebook.com/help/?faq=19030

by unicornporn • 15 years ago

17 28 15 years ago

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I fail to see any threads on this (am I blind?) so I will just start one.

JCB_K• 15 years ago

...since about 3 months.

antihero• 15 years ago

Why on earth would you trust Facebook with your e-mails?

phlux2• 15 years ago

Because they are all a bunch of "dumb fucks" to use the words of the founder of Facebook

yid• 15 years ago

No, you've got it wrong. He was referring to us.

ivan_ah• 15 years ago

seriously -- this is a direct quote!

http://www.businessinsider.com/well-these-new-zuckerberg-ims...

emmett2• 15 years ago

Why wouldn't you? What in specific are you afraid Facebook will do that Google would not?

Malcx2• 15 years ago

Change my privacy preferences on a whim without my permission?

thomasgerbe• 15 years ago

Why on earth would you trust PayPal/Mint/banks with money? Or Google with e-mail/search/browser data?

Xuzz• 15 years ago

Convenience. Facebook, for many people (myself somewhat included), has replaced email as the primary method of staying in touch. When email is only being used for website signups and a few similar, non-primary tasks, merging it into what you use all the time makes a reasonable amount of sense.

(Honestly, but not part of the point above, I don't have any issues trusting Facebook and Google with my data. I find it much less likely they will be hit with a Sony than others, and any really private data I have wouldn't go into any hosted service.)

noahth• 15 years ago

why on earth would you trust anyone with anything?

not saying I'm retiring my gmail account, just that there are plenty of ways that it might make sense for certain cases, despite some folks' knee-jerk inclination to distrust this one particular company.

Apocryphon• 15 years ago

Will Facebook notification emails be sent to Facebook email accounts? Delicious.

drivebyacct2• 15 years ago

Why? That doesn't make any sense. Email notifications are to remind you to come to Facebook to check out the content. If you view your email by coming to Facebook, you're already going to have seen the notification. Am I missing something?

tgrass• 15 years ago

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=recursion

AdamTReineke• 15 years ago

I still don't have the new Facebook messages... :-/

zeedotme• 15 years ago

can you try clicking on "messages" in facebook and seeing if that does anything?

gbelote• 15 years ago

Have you already claimed a facebook.com/username? I thought the same, but it seems like my username@facebook.com was already setup for me. Try sending yourself an email to @facebook.com (ideally from the email coupled to your FB account).

kels• 15 years ago

LIES! I don't have the link and I can't email an email address.

yeahsure• 15 years ago

It's been months since this launched. I've had this for a quite a while myself.

keltex• 15 years ago

Owning your @facebook.com address makes it easier for friends and family who are not on Facebook yet to connect with you

Hmmm... I'm quite sure that facebook will still "own your @facebook.com" address.

HardyLeung• 15 years ago

I have Facebook email for a while, and I find it incredibly hideous. I have already "trusted" Facebook to more things than I wanted, and I guess I'd hold on to my gmail which is at least operated by another company that is less evi... uh never mind.

logermoore2• 15 years ago

Why not just pay for an IMAP account at a provider that doesn't invade your privacy?

brackin• 15 years ago

I've had this since a week after it's announcement like November I think. I like that chat is integrated with messages but I don't use it like an email account.

blackRust• 15 years ago

While this is a great move from Facebook from 'getting everyone on our platform' POV I find it hideous and disgusting.

The interface is crap. It offers no folders/labels, no outside contacts (not sure?) and is a lock in system. Not only that, it doesn't bring anything new to email.

Value added? None. Just more lock-in, propriety, FBI-friendly BS.

I can't wait for Diaspora to be stable and public. Long live FOSS and the revolution!

EDIT: Yes can send email but will include your profile info. Gee thanks! Just what I wanted! Also Spam?

Also note that my post is intentionally agressive, I hate the 'Facebook attitude'.

logermoore2• 15 years ago

The combination of Facebook's blatant disregard for privacy and American authorities' wide access to snoop means that I won't be using Facebook email.

kmavm• 15 years ago

And has been for months. See the announcement here, which originally went up in November.

https://www.facebook.com/blog.php?post=452288242130

Facebook email is live

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