it seems convenient within Facebook but I would not like using a @facebook.com email address for serious communication. Imagine applying for college with such an address.
Is @gmail.com somehow more distinguished?
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Facebook’s Gmail Killer, Project Titan, Is Coming On Monday
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Re: Facebook’s Gmail Killer, Project Titan, Is Coming On Monday
#12The interface'll have the be unbelievably amazing and innovative for this to even make a dent in people's minds. And as others have pointed out, Facebook.com is not associated with professionalism (unless you're a recruiter or tech blogger or something). All in all, I think nobody will care at the end of the day.
> The interface'll have the be unbelievably amazing and innovative for this to even make a dent in people's minds I guarantee you that they are going to become the default address between people 16 and under. My brother is 16 and doesn't have an email address, but he does have a facebook account.
That's the scariest thing I've read so far today.
Re: Facebook’s Gmail Killer, Project Titan, Is Coming On Monday
#13I will be really interested to see this, because as it stands Facebook's messaging interface is barely any better than 2001's Hotmail (you do get a pretty picture with address autocomplete though).
Going from where they are now to anywhere close to being a 'Gmail killer' is a humongous step.
Re: Facebook’s Gmail Killer, Project Titan, Is Coming On Monday
#14I usually try to stop myself being overly protective of privacy. But - I already thought about leaving GMail several times to make sure that I don't rely on a big company that knows a lot about me.
Now Facebook, that would be an alternative. Uhm - wait a minute!
I do think they're going to pull this off though. Lots of people I know are still (happily) using the "older" services around, local free email providers, hotmail, whatever. A sexy webmail client, promoted by the site they use heavily? Sounds like a dealbreaker. Lots of non-technical people don't know Google as something other than a field to type searches into (or even rely on the browser search fields). Facebook could "educate" those to switch quite easily, I guess, given a good marketing strategy and some neat "integrate your mails with your status updates" features.
Ugh..
Re: Facebook’s Gmail Killer, Project Titan, Is Coming On Monday
#15I will be really interested to see this, because as it stands Facebook's messaging interface is barely any better than 2001's Hotmail (you do get a pretty picture with address autocomplete though). Going from where they are now to anywhere close to being a 'Gmail killer' is a humongous step.
A humongous step that Techcrunch is more than happy to make.
Re: Facebook’s Gmail Killer, Project Titan, Is Coming On Monday
#16The interface'll have the be unbelievably amazing and innovative for this to even make a dent in people's minds. And as others have pointed out, Facebook.com is not associated with professionalism (unless you're a recruiter or tech blogger or something). All in all, I think nobody will care at the end of the day.
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Re: Facebook’s Gmail Killer, Project Titan, Is Coming On Monday
#17The interface'll have the be unbelievably amazing and innovative for this to even make a dent in people's minds. And as others have pointed out, Facebook.com is not associated with professionalism (unless you're a recruiter or tech blogger or something). All in all, I think nobody will care at the end of the day.
> The interface'll have the be unbelievably amazing and innovative for this to even make a dent in people's minds I guarantee you that they are going to become the default address between people 16 and under. My brother is 16 and doesn't have an email address, but he does have a facebook account.
He'll have an email address by the time he gets to college. There are still plenty of people who'd prefer to keep their personal and collegiate/professional lives separate.
Re: Facebook’s Gmail Killer, Project Titan, Is Coming On Monday
#18The interface'll have the be unbelievably amazing and innovative for this to even make a dent in people's minds. And as others have pointed out, Facebook.com is not associated with professionalism (unless you're a recruiter or tech blogger or something). All in all, I think nobody will care at the end of the day.
> The interface'll have the be unbelievably amazing and innovative for this to even make a dent in people's minds I guarantee you that they are going to become the default address between people 16 and under. My brother is 16 and doesn't have an email address, but he does have a facebook account.
Especially amazing given that you need an email to sign up.
Re: Facebook’s Gmail Killer, Project Titan, Is Coming On Monday
#19I will be really interested to see this, because as it stands Facebook's messaging interface is barely any better than 2001's Hotmail (you do get a pretty picture with address autocomplete though). Going from where they are now to anywhere close to being a 'Gmail killer' is a humongous step.
A humongous step that Techcrunch is more than happy to make.
Techcrunch? What are you talking about?
Re: Facebook’s Gmail Killer, Project Titan, Is Coming On Monday
#20it seems convenient within Facebook but I would not like using a @facebook.com email address for serious communication. Imagine applying for college with such an address.
Is @gmail.com somehow more distinguished?
To me yes.
In a professional image scale I would definitively rank facebook.com less professional than gmail.com but maybe slightly better than WorlOfWarcraft.com