Comments on: Urgent Changes Are Needed To Facebook Messaging

By: TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » 退屈な企業への追い越し車線をひた走るFacebook

TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » 退屈な企業への追い越し車線をひた走るFacebook — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:21:20 +0000

[...] Facebookは、今や古臭くて基本的に使いものにならないメッセージシステムの問題にも言及しなかった。Gears導入でMySpaceが良い前轍を踏み固めてくれたのはもう2ヶ月近く前の話なのに。 [...]

By: Orgoo To Try To Merge True WebMail And Social Networks

Orgoo To Try To Merge True WebMail And Social Networks — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 07:52:00 +0000

[...] social networks opt for their own proprietary messaging systems. Unfortunately, these systems are much less powerful than email, and they’re certainly not as ubiquitous. Virtually everyone on the internet has [...]

By: www.ubraniaroxy.pl » Blog Archive » Facebook Email Gets Better With Search

Thu, 22 May 2008 03:04:58 +0000

[...] webmail platform is so inefficient that even minor changes (like adding the ability to send to outside email addresses last year) can [...]

By: Library clips :: When re-purposing email is difficult :: May :: 2008

Library clips :: When re-purposing email is difficult :: May :: 2008 — Fri, 16 May 2008 08:55:05 +0000

[...] Email is not alone here, blasting a private message to a list in your Facebook private messages is no different. [...]

By: Geekaholic: Neutral blogging: The Oxymoron

Geekaholic: Neutral blogging: The Oxymoron — Wed, 14 May 2008 08:13:51 +0000

[...] blog about it and link to you. Either way, your opinion is reaching more people. If you’re influential, your opinion can push people into action. But that’s the keyword, isn’t it? [...]

By: E-mail vs. messaging « Start snakken!

E-mail vs. messaging « Start snakken! — Sat, 10 May 2008 15:01:21 +0000

[...] og håndteringsmuligheder. Jeg blev meget inspireret af at læse Michael Arringtons blogpost på TechCrunch sidste uge om Facebook Messagings mange mangler, og jeg synes, at Michael har nogle rigtig gode [...]

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Fri, 09 May 2008 00:39:56 +0000

[...] webmail platform is so inefficient that even minor changes (like adding the ability to send to outside email addresses last year) can [...]

By: ONLINE SERVICES/INTERACTIVE MEDIA « Daily Marauder

ONLINE SERVICES/INTERACTIVE MEDIA « Daily Marauder — Thu, 08 May 2008 19:37:27 +0000

[...] webmail platform is so inefficient that even minor changes (like adding the ability to send to outside email addresses last year) can [...]

By: Facebook Email Gets Better With Search

Facebook Email Gets Better With Search — Thu, 08 May 2008 15:46:03 +0000

[...] webmail platform is so inefficient that even minor changes (like adding the ability to send to outside email addresses last year) can [...]

By: John Ryan

John Ryan — Thu, 08 May 2008 14:29:51 +0000

Word is that Facebook has released the ability to search through one’s Inbox to a select few networks as a beta launch. Maybe they realized the lack of utility

By: dave

dave — Mon, 05 May 2008 15:09:05 +0000

it IS awful! thanks for pointing out so clearly…pop3 would be the ultimate problem solver and liberation tool - then users could rely on gmail et al to sort, label and filter…or IMAP, but they probably will never give users that much control outside the garden…

By: Techie Links, 5 May 2008

Techie Links, 5 May 2008 — Mon, 05 May 2008 09:31:11 +0000

[...] Arrington notes that urgent changes are needed to Facebook messaging. Amen: he brings up some significant issues with Facebook’s current messaging platform. Now, [...]

By: Nick Berg

Nick Berg — Sun, 04 May 2008 22:09:58 +0000

So the real story is that Michael Arrington accepts friend requests from people that he doesn’t even know. Time to Michael to switch from Facebook to Egobook, where every new friend you have strokes your ego just that little bit more.

By: Adam

Adam — Sun, 04 May 2008 21:52:10 +0000

Facebook has definitely slowed down… My biggest problem is the new IM system. When I browse photo galleries I often open many pictures in new tabs. Guess the browser can’t handle the ajax requests. The whole browser lags.

By: Angela Hayden

Angela Hayden — Sun, 04 May 2008 21:39:02 +0000

There’s just too many people on the darn internet.

By: Sandra

Sandra — Sun, 04 May 2008 20:33:36 +0000

As a temporary workaround, automate Facebook via iMacros
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3863

By: danielmcvicar

danielmcvicar — Sun, 04 May 2008 20:13:34 +0000

Hi Michael
I never understood social networking as a way to receive email, when an email editor and inbox is much more efficient… Social networking email always reminds me of passing notes in class.

Love the TechCrunch.
D

By: Alistair Croll

Alistair Croll — Sun, 04 May 2008 17:49:17 +0000

Couldn’t agree more — particularly since Facebook mail is the number one way people who don’t have my e-mail address reach me. knows me well.

Makes me wonder whether there’s a Greasemonkey script out there that could detect facebook messages in GMail, intercept the replies when I click “Reply All”, and then log into Facebook in the background and send them through the Facebook interface. But that would be a huge band-aid, when what’s needed is for Facebook to embrace SMTP instead of trying to replace it.

As @Ariel Diaz points out, we have the makings of a truly authenticated, white-list directory in Facebook’s friends model that could address spam problems well.

By: Rawaz

Rawaz — Sun, 04 May 2008 16:52:08 +0000

Please Mike I love all your suggestions

But this one is open invitation for spammers!!!!!! Facebook is the last place on earth that I would like to use as an email!

Spammers will love those facebook emails

I think I will pass on this suggestion

By: Jordan

Jordan — Sun, 04 May 2008 16:38:31 +0000

Why don’t you just have a little note on your FB page that tells people to send you emails instead of messaging them? All of my friends know that I never respond to Facebook Mail..

Facebook could collect more data from its users if they gave users an @facebook.com email address. Then people like me might actually use facebook mail (it would be integrated into desktop email clients), and all the messages formarly handed off to google mail would be routed through facebook’s servers.

Giving users full email access and features seems like a win-win-win to me.

By: Shaun

Shaun — Sun, 04 May 2008 15:42:08 +0000

Facebook’s messaging is clearly simple and basic. It’s nowheree near being a robust email system and is not intended for business productivity.

So why are you trying to use it as a hammer when it’s so clearly a screwdriver?

Maybe rather than asking Facebook to expand this into yet another email system….maybe you should ask for them to figure out how to integrate the email systems out there into the Facebook platform? That way power users get to add in robustness and basic users can stay simple and not get bogged down with “business productivity” complexity.

By: Blake Brannon

Blake Brannon — Sun, 04 May 2008 14:00:43 +0000

Can we finally mark this as the end of the Facebook era and turn it over to the teenagers that use it.

By: jenkins

jenkins — Sun, 04 May 2008 13:07:33 +0000

Michael,

No offense but why would Facebook listen to you? It’s not like you have a successful track record of building or being involved in the building of great web-based products. You’re a third rate gossip monger — stick to what you know best. Leave the serious stuff to serious, credible people.

By: Zara Lockwood

Zara Lockwood — Sun, 04 May 2008 12:36:17 +0000

There used to be a facebook e-mail app. that was quite good called fbmail.net or fbemail.net ? that provided a better cloned version of facebook mail but with folders and more fuctionality - but it didn’t take off at the time (about a year ago) and they closed it down without warning - and I lost data with it.

Maybe they just need to start up a similar service again - that was a third party app. and blended in alright, I use dto have a link to it on my profile.

Zara

By: PWills

PWills — Sun, 04 May 2008 12:07:44 +0000

Wow, Mike: is this a personal blog or a news source about start-ups? The fact that you have a personal gripe doesn’t mean there is an “urgent” need to change Facebook messaging.

“Urgent Changes Are Needed to TechCrunch when viewed in a Mobile Web Browser”
How would you feel if Engadget published that story because TechCrunch doesn’t render correctly on an Engadget editor’s phone?