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17
Nov
Facebook’s amalgamated messaging service
Similarly to
Facebook’s recent changes, yesterday Facebook’s CEO
Mark Zuckerberg announced possibly the worst kept secret at the Web
2.0 summit.
Before you read on, Estate Agents make sure you are well versed
on
how to appear on Facebook’s top news. This will help
increase the amount of clicks from Facebook to your website.
At the summit it was revealed that 350 million users worldwide
are sending 4 billion personal messages a day. Project Titan was
inevitable.
‘Project Titan’ is Facebook’s completely new
version of its messaging system. Being invitation only and only two
invites per person, it could be some time till we see its
widespread use here in the UK.
Once invited, a user’s messages page will show an update
screen where users get to claim their personal @facebook.com email
address, although Mark Zuckerberg fully stressed that this is not
an email service.
In this new messaging service, the subject line has been
completely removed and is instead categorised by people. Not only
this, but the message system designed so that you can receive
messages across multiple platforms.
This means that if you’re chatting on Facebook chat (and
its working) and one of you has to leave, your conversation can
continue through Facebook’s (non)email or SMS all via
Facebook’s new messaging system.
Not only that, but Facebook has included an extra privacy
control in which users can select the people that can email
them.
The future: It is doubtful that people will completely migrate
over to a Facebook email address. It is more likely that people
will simply use Facebook’s messaging system in the exact way
that they’re doing now – for family and friends.
James Coyne – eMarketing and social media consultant
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