Comments on: Facebook Messages: Small Change, Big Impact.

By: Facebook and my enlightenment | gavin baker

Facebook and my enlightenment | gavin baker — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 21:09:29 +0000

[...] the reply I sent them back when I search for communications from them. So like Michael Arrington called for an imap for our facebook inbox I’d appreciate that type of interconnectivity between my email and my [...]

By: Are you building an application that people use every day or do you just think you are? | dv8-designs

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 11:46:30 +0000

[...] engaged is Facebook. One of Facebook’s most annoying features for a long time was the fact that notifications on new messages in the service didn’t actually contain the message. I suspect the purpose of doing this was to drive users back to the site so that they would then [...]

By: Are you building an application that people use every day or do you just think you are? - News ums Netz

Fri, 22 May 2009 16:01:10 +0000

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By: tanya van zyl etsebeth

tanya van zyl etsebeth — Wed, 13 May 2009 16:10:37 +0000

like the idea of getting info on email address also from facebook

By: Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life - Are you building an application that people use every day or do you just think you are?

Mon, 11 May 2009 15:03:43 +0000

By: john steele

john steele — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 11:58:54 +0000

hey dad

By: Elizabeth Gould

Elizabeth Gould — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 04:22:05 +0000

Miranda Anne Gould had have has computers every years sence she was a 16 yrs old until she die

By: Dear facebook, Thank You, Thank You. Thank You. Small Change. Big Impact. « Dear facebook,

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 03:43:46 +0000

[...] This is great. It’s frickin wonderful, even. And you clearly did this even though it reduces page views from people clicking on those messages just to see what they say. (Source: Techcrunch) [...]

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By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 10:24:54 +0000

Very smart move really. As they’ve made a right hash of their beacon stuff lately, this is a lovely new avenue for contextual placement of Ads. Fmail? lol.

By: 1999 Deja Ju

1999 Deja Ju — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 04:58:51 +0000

Facebook will be the next BlueMountain. http://smartsta...eja-vu-all.html

By: social media expert

social media expert — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 03:47:32 +0000

Quiet a big impact indeed. Seems facebook is realizing that people’s user experience is more important than monetizing the traffic in the long run. As Scottkarp of publishing2.0 rightly said “The next great internet company will not be one that makes a breakthrough with technology — it will be one that makes a breakthrough with people.”

By: xxdesmus

xxdesmus — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 01:15:11 +0000

This has annoyed me since Facebook’s inception. This is great news, but to be totally honest I am slowly learning to despise Facebook.

By: Facebook Email Notifications Actually Useful Now - What Apps

Facebook Email Notifications Actually Useful Now - What Apps — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 23:02:25 +0000

[...] you haven’t already noticed it appears that Facebook made a minor but significantly useful change to Facebook email [...]

By: Project

Project — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 22:48:45 +0000

People are just totally not getting it.

Facebook has replaced email for many users. Kids do not email each other these days. They send messages or wall posts on Facebook.

The cool thing about this is that my Facebook Inbox is whitelisted with my friends and nobody else. Its better than email for anti spam measures.

Secondly, my email address may change (be it work or personal), but my FB page is not going to. So as long as I keep my email account up to date on Facebook, I will receive friends messages even if they do not know the email address (and this is quite frequent)

By: StephTheGeek

StephTheGeek — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 22:38:17 +0000

THANK YOU! This is one of the things that always drives me batty about social networking sites.

By: Faramarz

Faramarz — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 22:24:51 +0000

^Same guy – You’re wrong, in that, those who were frustrated by this inability will value this effort by facebook’s. it’s almost an attempt at permission marketing coined by Seth Godin. Give your users what they want and in return they will give their loyalty.

By: some guy

some guy — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 21:59:05 +0000

While it’s a step forward for usability, you can see that it’s a step backward for Facebook. For them, the great thing about not showing messages is forcing you to log in and see their ads and all your other stuff. Now though, you don’t have to log in at all, and won’t see any of it.

By: Joey

Joey — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 21:04:06 +0000

they just destroyed my business. DAMN!!!!

By: Arin

Arin — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 21:02:48 +0000

I suggested POP & outbound email capabilities to Jonathan Abrams years ago. ya know, back when people actually used Friendster… he thought I was insane.

By: Jonas

Jonas — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 21:00:34 +0000

Michael, I dont get it. If someone wants to send you a message, why dont they email you directly? Why to use facebook at first place?

By: NHKC

NHKC — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 20:56:59 +0000

Small change? yes.

(Nice to have? why not)

Big impact?? give me a break…

…anyone who emails you on Facebook and not otherwise would fall into that “category” somewhere between spam and African lottery emails anyway…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 20:23:15 +0000

So exactly why should Facebook deserve such appreciation and thanks? They changed their notification emails to include notifications. Why would you get notification emails if not to get notifications?

Have we all just set our expectations so low that it’s a miracle when a company doesn’t manipulate and exploit us just to get another page view and make another fraction of a cent from an add we’re not going to click or even register our attention?