Facebook Mail is gone. Good.

From	RS Wood <rswood@therandymon.com>
Newsgroups	comp.misc
Subject	Facebook Mail is gone. Good.
Date	2014-02-25 10:05 +0000
Organization	solani.org
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From the "crash and burn you miserable bastard" department:
Title: RIP Facebook Mail: the beleaguered mail platform is finally put to rest
Author: Lauren Hockenson
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 18:11:27 -0500
Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/varDjfCawsc/
Podcast Download URL: http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/0b671c0e29761e4e491deb946930f101?s=96&d=retro&r=PG

Facebook has finally called it quits on the email service it created in 2010,
a project designed to “save time” and “unify” email[1] that never got off the
ground. The Verge reports[2] that the social media giant will now
automatically forward @fb.com email addresses to the primary listed address
on Facebook profiles, rendering the service moot.

Users were notified today via a pop-up:

Facebook’s email failure seems to be adoption — or, more specifically, lack
of adoption. Although the company tried to get users to connect on Facebook
email by changing every user’s listed address as @fb.com[3], the service was
never integrated or differentiated enough from the company’s old messaging
experience to become its own tool. The result was a half-hearted attempt at
mail that faded into the background — hardly the “seamless messaging
experience”[4] Facebook presented it as years ago.
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Related research and analysis from Gigaom Research:
Subscriber content. Sign up for a free trial[8].

* Key events in social in the fourth quarter 2012[9]
* Examining the rise of crowd labor platforms in 2012[10]
* Social third-quarter 2012: analysis and outlook[11]

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Links:
[1]: http://gigaom.com/2010/01/13/time-saver-now-you-can-reply-by-email-to-facebook/ (link)
[2]: http://www.theverge.com/2014/2/24/5443454/facebook-retires-its-email-service (link)
[3]: http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/06/facebook-forces-all-users-over-to-facebook-com-e-mail-addresses/ (link)
[4]: https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook/see-the-messages-that-matter/452288242130 (link)
[5]: http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gigaom.com&blog=14960843&post=819914&subd=gigaom2&ref=&feed=1 (image)
[6]: http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/jump?iu=/1008864/Gigaom_RSS_300x250&sz=300x250&c=854629 (link)
[7]: http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/ad?iu=/1008864/Gigaom_RSS_300x250&sz=300x250&c=854629 (image)
[8]: http://research.gigaom.com/?utm_source=techutm_medium=editorial&utm_campaign=auto3&utm_term=819914+rip-facebook-mail-the-beleaguered-mail-platform-is-finally-put-to-rest&utm_content=laurenhockenson (link)
[9]: http://research.gigaom.com/report/social-fourth-quarter-2012-analysis/?utm_source=techutm_medium=editorial&utm_campaign=auto3&utm_term=819914+rip-facebook-mail-the-beleaguered-mail-platform-is-finally-put-to-rest&utm_content=laurenhockenson (link)
[10]: http://pro.gigaom.com/2012/11/sector-roadmap-crowd-labor-platforms-in-2012/?utm_source=techutm_medium=editorial&utm_campaign=auto3&utm_term=819914+rip-facebook-mail-the-beleaguered-mail-platform-is-finally-put-to-rest&utm_content=laurenhockenson (link)
[11]: http://pro.gigaom.com/2012/10/social-third-quarter-2012-analysis-and-outlook/?utm_source=techutm_medium=editorial&utm_campaign=auto3&utm_term=819914+rip-facebook-mail-the-beleaguered-mail-platform-is-finally-put-to-rest&utm_content=laurenhockenson (link)
[12]: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/OmMalik?a=varDjfCawsc:YCP3x7wmjgs:yIl2AUoC8zA (link)
[13]: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/OmMalik?d=yIl2AUoC8zA (image)
[14]: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OmMalik/~4/varDjfCawsc (image)

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