Facebook Social Inbox is Intriguing…But Not For Me

Facebook unveiled it’s all-in-one communications system called “Social Inbox”. The service combines email, instant messaging, and SMS. Here are more details from GigaOm:

  • A seamless messaging system: Facebook’s social inbox handles email, but also SMS and IM. Users will be able to have facebook.com email addresses, Zuckerberg says, “but this is not email — I don’t even think email will be the primary way people communicate.”
  • A single conversation history: Zuckerberg said that one thing that adds weight to email is threaded replies, so the new service will have a single conversation history for all your communication with a person, regardless of whether it comes via email, SMS, IM etc.
  • A social in-box: Because Facebook knows who your friends are, you can see only messages that are really relevant, says Zuckerberg, and therefore “the default experience is all really high-signal personal messages.” In other words, less spam.

The features are awfully interesting and Facebook has a chance to succeed in unified messaging where Google failed with Wave. Unfortunately, the product is useless to me unless I start another Facebook account. The majority of people I’m “friends” with on Facebook aren’t purely social connections. Some of them are friends, but most of them are gaming industry contacts or people that read my articles — they’re friends but they’re not…friends. With that in mind, Facebook wouldn’t be able to tell what messages are truly relevant to me.

Anyway, I’ve been thinking about social inbox for several hours and I’m excited by its potential…though I’m not sure I’d start another account to take advantage of what it offers. How about you? Are you interested in Facebook’s unified communications system (don’t call it email or Zuck will get pissed)?

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Author: RPadTV

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2 thoughts on “Facebook Social Inbox is Intriguing…But Not For Me”

  1. I think they are trying to say that the default settings will block/hide any emails/messages from people who are not on your friends list. In that way, it would work just fine for you Ray. I doubt anyone of us would send you spam emails.

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