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Re: Facebook announces new Messaging Feature

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Post by ry0ohki »

flipbrad wrote: post #20

So according to their blog: “All of your messages with someone will be together in one place, whether they are sent over chat, email or SMS. You can see everything you’ve discussed with each friend as a single conversation. I’m intensely jealous of the next generation who will have something like Facebook for their whole lives. They will have the conversational history with the people in their lives all the way back…

Unless the company goes out of business or someone buys them out or they decide to limit history to 30 days... too bad Facebook doesn't let you export your data!

Re: Facebook announces new Messaging Feature

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Post by orblivion »

flipbrad wrote: post #20

So according to their blog: “All of your messages with someone will be together in one place, whether they are sent over chat, email or SMS. You can see everything you’ve discussed with each friend as a single conversation. I’m intensely jealous of the next generation who will have something like Facebook for their whole lives. They will have the conversational history with the people in their lives all the way back…

Well, possibly easier access anyway, since Facebook owns Facebook conversations. But if you've never changed your email address, it's not much different right?

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Post by hartror »

"this product isn't email, but it lets people who do use email to connect with the rest of us"

Even Facebook seem to have caught the email is dead meme.

"keep this lookup table in my head"

Is this a pain point for anyone? Our contacts are stored in such a way that this is obvious, I can't send a SMS to grandma as she doesn't have a mobile.

Re: Facebook announces new Messaging Feature

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Post by Kilimanjaro »

The only flaw of all this is that vanity ids won't automagically become email addresses for everybody.

If I tell my friends to find me at facebook/kilimanjaro I want them to message me at kilimanjaro@facebook.com too.

They should associate and create 500M email accounts right away and become the greatest email provider on earth.

Re: Facebook announces new Messaging Feature

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Post by CWIZO »

ry0ohki wrote: post #21
flipbrad wrote: post #20

So according to their blog: “All of your messages with someone will be together in one place, whether they are sent over chat, email or SMS. You can see everything you’ve discussed with each friend as a single conversation. I’m intensely jealous of the next generation who will have something like Facebook for their whole lives. They will have the conversational history with the people in their lives all the way back…

Unless the company goes out of business or someone buys them out or they decide to limit history to 30 days... too bad Facebook doesn't let you export your data!

But it does ... look under "account settings" ...

Re: Facebook announces new Messaging Feature

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Post by jewbacca »

The only feature I care about and what I've been hurting for for years is some means of segregating the Groups bacn. Some of most personally significant correspondences I've ever had are in my Messages Inbox. In the early days, it had a sentiment-noise ratio second only to a shoebox I keep in the back of my closet. Now it's 95% garbage from Groups/Events I value just barely enough to not unsubscribe from. I recognize the value of those messages given their own context, and I also recognize that the signal's dropped off since I'm no longer a 19-year-old drama whore.

But the simple ability to sort personal messages from mass bacn is still the #1 feature I've wanted from Facebook, through all these years of feed redesigns and app platforms.

Re: Facebook announces new Messaging Feature

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Post by flipbrad »

orblivion wrote: post #23
flipbrad wrote: post #20

So according to their blog: “All of your messages with someone will be together in one place, whether they are sent over chat, email or SMS. You can see everything you’ve discussed with each friend as a single conversation. I’m intensely jealous of the next generation who will have something like Facebook for their whole lives. They will have the conversational history with the people in their lives all the way back…

Well, possibly easier access anyway, since Facebook owns Facebook conversations. But if you've never changed your email address, it's not much different right?

I don't know what the wider stats are on conversation fragmentation, or deletion, but my relationships with my friends are diffused through more platforms than email. Much to the annoyance of people whose progress in life depends on knowing everything about your relationships.

Re: Facebook announces new Messaging Feature

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Post by jessriedel »

hartror wrote: post #24

" this product isn't email, but it lets people who do use email to connect with the rest of us " Even Facebook seem to have caught the email is dead meme. " keep this lookup table in my head " Is this a pain point for anyone? Our contacts are stored in such a way that this is obvious, I can't send a SMS to grandma as she doesn't have a mobile.

> Is this a pain point for anyone?

Yes, I have several friends whose SMS, Facebook, and email contacts I have but who each prefer a different service.

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