Facebook is now expected to launch a real email product anytime from now, replacing its clunky messaging system with something that foments a direct, head-to-head battle with Google for dominance of the Internet. Thus, Facebook declares war to Google.
Facebook represents a diverse way of operation online. While Google is just a website you go to to get something done albeit something critical and immensely useful—Facebook is a place where people increasingly live online. It is attempting to turn the entire Internet social. In addition, Facebook has become the world's largest website—by far—in terms of time spent.
Google in the other hand will almost certainly sometime soon make a more concentrated effort to become a player in the social Web. It has bought a number of small social sites in areas like gaming. But its best hope to counter Facebook would be by somehow combining Gmail with its biggest slightly social property, YouTube. But that strategy depends on the continued health of Gmail.
Facebook Email Arrival
One helpful thing about having your email right in Facebook is that it would get rid of the problem of having to check both your email and Facebook separately. There are already various integrations where you can do these things from a single place, but having it all compact right in Facebook could be a more attractive experience for a lot of users.
Another potentially positive aspect of Facebook email could be the pure amount of features that that users could gain access to. If you were able to utilize different apps built by third-party developers to change the functionality of your inbox, that could be very powerful.
Gmail users love Gmail Labs - when Google launches new experimental features - but imagine having the whole Facebook developer community building different features for your inbox that you can turn on and off. It could make for a much more personalized and customized experience, allowing users to make their inbox as useful as possible.
In many ways, Facebook email would make a lot of sense, in the same way Facebook payments make sense. You're already signing into things all over the web your Facebook account, this is one more thing to add to the mix.
As long as you are able to take your messages with you, should you be want to close your Facebook account, there are a lot of potential advantages. We don't know if this is the case or not, however, at this point. This is why I initially wanted to wait for the actual announcement.
Facebook Email to Oust Gmail? I love Gmail still. Let's see.
Facebook represents a diverse way of operation online. While Google is just a website you go to to get something done albeit something critical and immensely useful—Facebook is a place where people increasingly live online. It is attempting to turn the entire Internet social. In addition, Facebook has become the world's largest website—by far—in terms of time spent.
Google in the other hand will almost certainly sometime soon make a more concentrated effort to become a player in the social Web. It has bought a number of small social sites in areas like gaming. But its best hope to counter Facebook would be by somehow combining Gmail with its biggest slightly social property, YouTube. But that strategy depends on the continued health of Gmail.
Facebook Email Arrival
One helpful thing about having your email right in Facebook is that it would get rid of the problem of having to check both your email and Facebook separately. There are already various integrations where you can do these things from a single place, but having it all compact right in Facebook could be a more attractive experience for a lot of users.
Another potentially positive aspect of Facebook email could be the pure amount of features that that users could gain access to. If you were able to utilize different apps built by third-party developers to change the functionality of your inbox, that could be very powerful.
Gmail users love Gmail Labs - when Google launches new experimental features - but imagine having the whole Facebook developer community building different features for your inbox that you can turn on and off. It could make for a much more personalized and customized experience, allowing users to make their inbox as useful as possible.
In many ways, Facebook email would make a lot of sense, in the same way Facebook payments make sense. You're already signing into things all over the web your Facebook account, this is one more thing to add to the mix.
As long as you are able to take your messages with you, should you be want to close your Facebook account, there are a lot of potential advantages. We don't know if this is the case or not, however, at this point. This is why I initially wanted to wait for the actual announcement.
Facebook Email to Oust Gmail? I love Gmail still. Let's see.
