Facebook Announces New Messaging System
Facebook announced today at a press event this morning in San Francisco that they will be launching a new “modern messaging system.”
According to Zuckerberg, more than four billion messages are currently sent through Facebook each day. He also shared that Facebook believes that modern messaging is seamless, informal, immediate, personal, simple and minimal. “It’s not e-mail,” he said. There are no subject lines, no cc, no bcc, and you can send a message by hitting the Enter key.”
Interestingly enough, Facebook is handing out facebook.com e-mail addresses to all users who choose to use the email function. The system, however, is really modeled after chat according to Andrew Bosworth. “People should share however they want to share,” he says.
The new messaging system is composed of three parts: seamless messaging, cross-platform conversation history and the social inbox. The latter is an inbox for filtering the messages you want, organized by the people you care about. It’s designed to highlight conversations with your real friends and be spam free.
The messaging system is also designed to be platform-agnostic, so users can send and receive messages via mobile, IM or Facebook. The messaging system is designed to make it easier for users to communicate with their real friends, wherever they are. The system will be rolled out slowly over the next few months in an invite-only process, Zuckerberg says.
