Can @Facebook Make It as an Email Service Provider?

by SodaHead News Posted 2012/06/26 20:00:00

Related Topics: Facebook, Email, @facebook, email provider, Forced

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If you're on Facebook and previously refused to set up an @facebook.com email address, it was to no avail. The social network just rolled out email addresses for every single user. Fortunately, it's not connected to your external email in any way. However, according to PC Mag, some users have reported that the address is available to the public by default.

Facebook hopes the new system will protect user privacy by replacing external email addresses and replacing them with the @facebook address. Ultimately, it's just an extension of Facebook messages, but it's establishing a basis for something that could extend outside of the social network. Do you think Facebook could make it as an email provider, or should they stick to social networking? And if you can't get enough of Facebook questions, go ahead and take our 6-question Facebook Quick Poll. You know you want to.

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Alvin 2012/06/27 01:05:08

No

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Facebook is leading the public down a path that will insure Facebook controls everything that happens on the internet, and by that time, it will be too late for a change. I think Facebook is intrinsically evil and self serving. Yet people keep following this crazy fad despite the multiple cases of revealed passwords, hacked accounts and "targeted ads". No Big Brother watching you, is there?
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Tannenberg1993 2012/06/28 02:49:21

Yes

I'm not going to use it, though.

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mikeyllo 2012/06/28 02:29:37

Yes

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For the younger crowd or for those who don't care about maintaining a certain level of professionalism, I think they'll be ok with using facebook for email purposes. For myself, I'm not interested.

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Heffeweizen 2012/06/28 01:36:36

No

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I don't see anyone who already has an e-mail account suddenly changing it because facebook offers/creates it for you. I am on facebook and I went to my profile and hid the facebook e-mail and my normal e-mail from my profile.

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kir 2012/06/28 01:29:47

No

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They will not make it as an email provider if they make people join by force.

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Karl 2012/06/28 00:25:12

No

1. The current email providers are already pretty well entrenched in the markets.
2. I doubt people want to create a profile (who don't already have one) just to get the @facebook.com.
3. I'm sure it's somewhere in the terms and conditions that Facebook owns every email I send and receive through them.

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SebaTheSociallyAwkwardPenguin 2012/06/28 00:06:48

No

all about MSN

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TorchwoodTrinity 2012/06/27 23:37:34

No

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I agree with what chiglet - Daedric Sigil Mag... said..... " Especially since they didn't bother to ASK their users if they wanted a FaceBook address. Just arbitrarily shoved them at the users."

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chiglet - Daedric Sigil Mag... 2012/06/27 22:13:29

No

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Especially since they didn't bother to ASK their users if they wanted a FaceBook address. Just arbitrarily shoved them at the users.

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Sonic 2012/06/27 22:09:07

No

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Wait, so facebook doesn't already let you send private messages? Well, obviously it does, but people want yet another way to reach each other. Email is almost a dead service because of social networking like Myspace and facebook. So why would facebook take a step back and become and email provider? So I can log into facebook (note; i don't have a facebook) just to email somebody? Can't I just PM their facebook (if they have one).

To me, facebook was dead on start and was never actually useful. I've always prefered emails to SN sites because it doesn't try to become my entire gateway to the other people in the world.

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havoc to Sonic 2012/06/29 00:08:17

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Funny you should say that. Physical mail is almost dead because of email. Everyone started using emails because it was faster and more convenient. Pretty much all mail is used anymore are post cards and bills (for packages and stuff there's services such as UPS and FedEX)

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Saye Saye to havoc 2012/06/30 15:48:43

+1
Good point

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Sonic to havoc 2012/07/02 19:27:19

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I knew that. And now it's happening to emails.

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Lina Blub 2012/06/27 22:00:27

No

since FB already saves everything we post and type, i doubt anybody will use it as a email service provider... we need our privacy

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lm1b2 2012/06/27 21:30:24

No

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I don't like Facebook,does anyone know why Yahoo is trying to force people on facebook to blog on its news articles?This is really pissing me off!

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Its Me,... to lm1b2 2012/06/27 22:01:17

Well Im1b2 - It is better to be pissed off than pissed on.

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lm1b2 to Its Me,... 2012/06/28 00:23:24

LOL

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WEREWOLF 2012/06/27 21:10:02

No

I think this is a step in the wrong direction we should have a say not just boom this is it if you catch my meaning there are reasons some don't wish to have an email for or from Facebook

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Kitsune Touhou 2012/06/27 20:39:53

No

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oh hell no. first it took out myspace, and now it's trying to take gmail out of the game.

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RobinPeta 2012/06/27 20:38:34

No

It is about as lame as yahoo, Hotmail, aol, and mac. Get Google!

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havoc to RobinPeta 2012/06/29 00:09:42
RobinPeta to havoc 2012/06/29 18:28:43

Borderline.

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JackWilfred 2012/06/27 20:36:11

No

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They're not a company that does everything, like Google. They're a social network, and they would make a crappy email provider.

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Tennessee3501 2012/06/27 20:33:59

Yes

Only time will tell for sure!

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Bob 2012/06/27 20:13:43

No

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It should stay out of that area.

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Lady Aiyanna 2012/06/27 20:12:57

No

They have the expertise but their Server management suck as their Facebook pages hang a lot and I wouldn't want to have that happening with my email account.
Moreover to be able to get email wouldn't they have to programme the whole thing from scratch with new servers and then create a link to what is already existent on their platform???
They will probably borrow the expertise from the veterans and then build on it to create their own identity but the core platform is still the same wherein it all boils down to the features and the storage space which is already showing signs of overload.

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chadwr85 2012/06/27 19:51:30

No

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Not professional enough and Facebook will die soon as all social networking sites do. Myspace died randomly.

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havoc to chadwr85 2012/06/29 00:12:56

Myspace didn't die randomly, it died because most of it's users switched to facebook. Honestly the only advantage Facebook had over Myspace was the games which seemed to be all it took. I guess social networks users don't know how to search "online flash games"

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chadwr85 to havoc 2012/07/06 23:13:52

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yeah I really don't see anything better on FB. There is way less profile customization, no top friends, no bulletins, and the timeline is a bomb.

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johnnyg 2012/06/27 19:49:03

Yes

I guess so.

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cinseattle61 2012/06/27 19:42:03

No

You can change the email back to the original in your settings. They should not change anything that is private on your profile period. Free or not it is wrong and bad policy.

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☆FritzW☆ 2012/06/27 19:38:09

No

I just hate it when a company takes it upon themselves to 'give' me something without asking my permission. I don't have a personal relationship with the company; I don't expect it to ask me how my day went or visa versa. Therefore, there's a level of professionalism that I expect be maintained and that includes respecting me enough to ask my permission to use my name in any way, including the creation of an email address. If it's true that the address is available by default, I'm probably done with facebook completely.

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l0oky 2012/06/27 19:37:04

Yes

Yes but there are too many providers already :S. I don't recommend it ...

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geneticmistake 2012/06/27 19:04:44

No

...but as long as I have to have the address I'll use it as a junk account. Wouldn't have a Facebook email address by choice though.

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Margaret Jacobson 2012/06/27 18:46:16

No

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I know that I do not want one

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David 2012/06/27 18:38:20

No

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I'm beginning to hate Facebook. Mark Zuckerberg is such a dick. He doesn't care for people's privacy. What's the point of privacy options when your ticker shows everything you do, every damn second?

I find the @facebook to be pretty lame. Gmail > all.

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RobinPeta to David 2012/06/27 20:41:25

I am tired of some friends of a coworker commenting on my family photos. I don't seems to understand who the help can see my private posts, photos, and activities.

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Sasssy 2012/06/27 18:11:36

No

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They'll share your mail just like they allow your friends to post pictures on your wall.

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Loneseer 2012/06/27 17:19:27

Yes

But, I wouldn't trust facebook because I feel like they would invade my privacy. That is why I'm careful about what I post and put in my private messages especially.

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Kigan 2012/06/27 17:18:15

No

The fad is too far dead.

And that is a very good thing.

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Taxman 2012/06/27 17:01:26

No

It will make it easier for their in-house spam division.

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