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Re: Facebook Mail is gone. Good.

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RS Wood wrote:
>  From the "crash and burn you miserable bastard" department:

> 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.

The problem is they tried to stuff it down users' throats and I'll bet a 
lot of people weren't too happy about it.  They even automatically 
updated everyone's addresses so that FB addresses came first and the 
address you'd added manually for yourself become secondary.

I say, "F that.  And F you, Zuck."  That's totally unacceptable and am 
glad to see it sink like a miserable pile of crap.  I'm not sure you can 
consider this "half hearted."  I think they made a real effort but 
realized they were barking up the wrong tree.

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Facebook Mail is gone.  Good. RS Wood  <rswood@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-25 10:05 +0000
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