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Ask HN: Anybody using Facebook email?

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Some time ago, not sure when exactly, Facebook announced that they are going to give emails to everyone. It was big news at the time. It was supposed to change everything. I have not heard or read anything about this for quite some time. Anybody using it? Is it changing a world that I am not aware of? Or is this a Google Buzz moment for Facebook?

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I just tried to send a message from Facebook to an actual email address that is hosted by Google. Guess what happened? The email from my Facebook account ended up in the spam folder in my gmail! :-) Now that's interesting on two accounts. First I didn't even know I could send an email from Facebook messages. Second, Google treated it as spam.

Facebook Messages is texts, chat and email together in one simple conversation. A lot of people on Facebook are using it, with or without knowing.

So what was that big announcement about? All of that existed when Facebook email was announced.

See http://www.facebook.com/about/messages/ for information about how Facebook Messages helps you connect and share with the people in your life.

I just sent an actual email to an email address from Facebook messages. GMail treated as spam, which is kind of funny. :-)

Would anyone actually trust facebook enough to let them run your email? I wouldn't.

Why's that? I don't see them being any less trustworthy than say Yahoo, Google or Microsoft.

If you believe that past behavior predicts future behavior, they are manifestly worse than Google, and probably worse than Microsoft or Yahoo:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Facebook#Privacy_c... (it's a long read)

Shenanigans.

I am sorry, I did not understand your point.

Email is email.

Facebook email, at least how it was marketed (Gmail killer etc) is a joke. People expected a serious, streamlined service and they got girlie private messaging.

Couldn't agree more.

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