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Would you trust Facebook with your e-mail? It’s bad enough we trust Google with our mail but Facebook? Heh, I guess they can call if FAIL, you know…just in case.

The latest word on Monday morning's briefing is that we'll get our first look at Project Titan—the code name for what is reputedly a secret Facebook project aimed at creating a full-on Web-based email client to rival such competitors as Gmail, Hotmail and (of course) Yahoo! Mail.
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I know people will, if just to unify everything and have it easy. I sure as hell wouldn't especially with all the crap they've been doing............... on second hand, since pretty much 80% .... or 95% of my facebook is me Liking Porn... I might make one just to get porn spam.
 
Google also has Google Me in the works, supposedly their equivalent to Facebook, debuting soon. Interesting to see the results of the soon to be Google/Facebook showdown.
 
Do you guys use your facebook login to login in to forums and stuff? Im pretty hesitant to do that cause I don't know if its a seperate layer that goes through Facebook or does the forum get my name and password when I login like that. I keep it old school and just have seperate accounts for each forum.
 
westrock2000 said:
Do you guys use your facebook login to login in to forums and stuff? Im pretty hesitant to do that cause I don't know if its a seperate layer that goes through Facebook or does the forum get my name and password when I login like that. I keep it old school and just have seperate accounts for each forum.
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Never. I want facebook as far away from any other thing I touch as possible. I also don't want people in a random forum site somewhere to have access to my facebook information. Whether they are forum users or moderators.
 
Negative ghost rider.

I do use facebook to keep up with friends and family, but I dont need yet another e-mail account to keep up with.
 
westrock2000 said:
Do you guys use your facebook login to login in to forums and stuff? Im pretty hesitant to do that cause I don't know if its a seperate layer that goes through Facebook or does the forum get my name and password when I login like that. I keep it old school and just have seperate accounts for each forum.
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I do for gametrailers... and I believe that's it.
 
No, I like my email as email, and not tied to additional web services. ESPECIALLY a social network -- they can change like the wind.
 
And I already have a 2nd friendless FB account if I need "external FB login" for some other websites. Because I like my FB account just for FB. I hate the whole "one account a million places" trend. A recipe for stolen password disaster.
 
Facebook email? No thanks. I'd rather not put anything personal besides my name on that website.
 
Facebook email? What's next? Facebook IRC? Facebook gopher? Facebook teletype? Facebook wheel? Facebook fire? Guess people are getting sick of Facebook stuff and they need to expand to some old technologies that never go away.
 
People still actually use FB ?

After all the bullshit thats happened regarding them and security, email would be the last thing I would of thought they would get into.

Dunno why, but I never did get into all this facebook and similar website's drama.
 
EVIL-SCOTSMAN said:
People still actually use FB ?
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Facebook is the 2nd most trafficked website in the world according to Alexa. You could say a lot of people still use it. I work in a university environment and rarely find a college student without one.

Facebook Email will be extremely popular by virtue of how popular Facebook is, i.e. far more popular than any dedicated email service--i.e. there's probably more Facebook accounts than Yahoo accounts. I think this will be more damaging to Yahoo/AOL/Hotmail. I run across more students with Hotmail, Yahoo or AOL emails than Gmail (not really sure why this is). When they discover they have email tied to their Facebook account automatically, they'll migrate. Nearly every Facebook user I know has Facebook set as their homepage. Now they don't need to steer away from the homepage to check their email. Geeks like ourselves will see past this and the potential problems linking social networking to our email (security, distractions, etc.), but most people (and surprisingly college students) aren't very computer savvy beyond Facebook and Microsoft Office.
 
loki7 said:
Facebook is the 2nd most trafficked website in the world according to Alexa. You could say a lot of people still use it. I work in a university environment and rarely find a college student without one.

Facebook Email will be extremely popular by virtue of how popular Facebook is, i.e. far more popular than any dedicated email service--i.e. there's probably more Facebook accounts than Yahoo accounts. I think this will be more damaging to Yahoo/AOL/Hotmail. I run across more students with Hotmail, Yahoo or AOL emails than Gmail (not really sure why this is). When they discover they have email tied to their Facebook account automatically, they'll migrate. Nearly every Facebook user I know has Facebook set as their homepage. Now they don't need to steer away from the homepage to check their email. Geeks like ourselves will see past this and the potential problems linking social networking to our email (security, distractions, etc.), but most people (and surprisingly college students) aren't very computer savvy beyond Facebook and Microsoft Office.
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Interesting article on Gizmodo

Facebook has 500 million active users. Gmail is estimated at 170 million registered users, while Yahoo has 303 million and Hotmail is still king of the hill at 364 million.
 
loki7 said:
I think this will be more damaging to Yahoo/AOL/Hotmail. I run across more students with Hotmail, Yahoo or AOL emails than Gmail (not really sure why this is).
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Yahoo, AIM and MSN messengers?

You have to remember if you stop paying for AOL the internet dissapears

I need to remember my facebook login...its been years...I must have at least 3 friend requests
 
And those facebook numbers were the PEAK of facebook and everyone uses it now (for the past 6 months it seems)

There IS NOT 500 million active facebook users... there is 500 million accounts that were created at its peak and "were active within 30 days of account use"

Most of those accounts ARE NOT used. Type in Bob Smith and see how many thousand fake BOB SMITH accounts with no pic you come up with......

Facebook is dying, and they (facebook and part owner Microsoft) keep spamming false numbers to get more investor money. That's how facebook started and will end, with the rise and fall of their investment money and old man thinking. Facebook=myspace-advertising
 
I find it amusing nobody caught on the irony of Yahoo writing this article, shedding negative light over Mark Zuckerberg's next plan. Well of course Yahoo's going to title the article "would you trust Facebook with your emails?" - they'd be fierce competition. It's bad enough they have Microsoft and Google to contend with, but throw Facebook in the mix, it just spells trouble for the already-struggling company.
 
Isn't that basically what their message system is anyway? I am still waiting for the next big thing, so people stop bugging me to join facebook.
 
loki7 said:
Facebook is the 2nd most trafficked website in the world according to Alexa. You could say a lot of people still use it. I work in a university environment and rarely find a college student without one.

Facebook Email will be extremely popular by virtue of how popular Facebook is, i.e. far more popular than any dedicated email service--i.e. there's probably more Facebook accounts than Yahoo accounts. I think this will be more damaging to Yahoo/AOL/Hotmail. I run across more students with Hotmail, Yahoo or AOL emails than Gmail (not really sure why this is). When they discover they have email tied to their Facebook account automatically, they'll migrate. Nearly every Facebook user I know has Facebook set as their homepage. Now they don't need to steer away from the homepage to check their email. Geeks like ourselves will see past this and the potential problems linking social networking to our email (security, distractions, etc.), but most people (and surprisingly college students) aren't very computer savvy beyond Facebook and Microsoft Office.
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Wow Mr Obvious.

Sarcasm isnt your thing is it ? ;)
 
Facebook can't fail fast enough for me. I barely trust google with my e-mail.
 
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