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Yep, Facebook Takes Control Of Fb.com Ahead Of Mail Launch

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I love TechCrunch. This article links to another article that's an hour old that says mail.facebook.com shows the Exchange webmail portal, and so the new Facebook mail thing is going to be Exchange. Nope guys, that's where the people that work at Facebook get their webmail.

Breaking news: Facebook's employees use email!

Though it would be pretty interesting if FB integrated with Exchange to sync facebook event invites (calendar) and facebook contacts. Would bring Exchange to the "normal" person - probably be a smart move on Microsoft's part.

Pointed out in the comments: Why not use fb.me, which they already owned? fb.me is shorter and easier to remember ("facebook me" being a colloquialism these days, joe.smith@fb.me doesn't sound bad at all). And it subtly encourages people to go back and use the Facebook website instead of sticking with raw email, which I guarantee will be an underpinning to whatever secret email "project" they are finishing up.

fb.com is just two letters for most people.

I cant imagine why facebook the site and facebook-mail have to be in different addresses. Most likely the mail feature will be surfaced within the facebook UI. Right now, fb.com redirects to facebook.

The Fb.com address is probably just a convenience for both facebook and its users.

There is a an argument for having separate domains so that official correspondence from a website is not easily spoofed. Consider someone creating an account 'payments@facebook.com' or something similar.

I agree; the scammer/malware heuristics of regular internet users are likely going to treat fb.com as a false positive. Consider the fact that Facebook's hundred-million demographic comprises people like these: https://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/facebook_wants_to_be_y....

Good point.

They can always use it for URL shortening.

Many (regular, non tech) people don't know about or understand alternate tld's.

I was secretly hopeful this would be an opportunity for somebody with overwhelming mindshare to change that.

The article implies that the fb.com address will be used internally, while the new email accounts will use *@facebook.com

for a few seconds there I was worried that Microsoft might have teamed up with FB to create some strange web portal that included social media, email and documents. nightmare stuff...

still, I didn't expect FB to be using Exchange

fb.com will jsut further confirm FB asa platform

The addition of the features that they have in their roadmap, such as video hosting, email, payments, apps etc really make a compelling case for a long haul plan.

With the recent defection of high level googs - it is clear what is planned.

OMG HOW EXCITING!!!11111111

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