"Can I say you're my girlfriend on Facebook?"

rolling it out over the next few months?

can you imagine they have REINVENTED the email, rip email long live email (beta)

the game been forever changed.

pretty upset i dont have this yet btw, roll me out usern✧✧✧@faceb✧✧✧.c✧✧

*rides the google wave into the sunset*

“This is not an email killer. This is a messaging experience that includes email as one part of it,” Zuckerberg said. It’s all about making communication simpler. “This is the way that the future should work,” he continued.

this is the way the future should work is my new catch phrase

instantly invalidating opposition

http://img820.imageshack.us/img820/1875/screenshot20101115at127.png

:-(

this is the way the future should work

Because @ fb.com is just one letter away from being @fbi.com

You know how many times I've accidentally gone to General Motors' website while trying to get to gmail? The FBI is looking forward to your clicks.

alright which of you have some invites to the way the future should work

this is the way the future should work is my new catch phrase

― ice cr?m, Monday, 15 November 2010 19:26 (5 minutes ago)

:D

id call to ask but the phone call died

facebook mail invite thread, this is the way the future should work

http://www.facebook.com/about/messages <<

i clicked all over the page but no invite popped up

Around?

maybe if i edit the html

according to this dumb blog some people can just activate that shit but i got an invite request button, this is not how the future should work http://www.allfacebook.com/how-to-get-a-facebook-email-account-now-2010-11

i tried to sign in to yahoo just now and an error message came up that said "sorry, yahoo is no longer active because facebook killed us."

"Your PHP installation appears to be missing the MySQL extension which is required by WordPress."

what ISNT dead

okay thanks 4 the ice cr?m -- i was actually able to request an invite

looool @ "thanks 4 the ice cr?m"

thanks 4 the tip ice cr?m, rather

In much the same way I unfollow anyone who posts 4square links, I will blacklist any email from fb, fmail, or whatever the hell they end up calling it.

i tried to sign in to hotmail but my computer reached out and killed me for being lame/foreign

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three cheers for getting rid of subjects lines in e-mails, though

how will we know what they're about?

why should we be subjected to this knowledge

it'll read more like a new message in a IM convo, or like an ILX thread. The Never Ending Facebook Conversation Story

Fun fact: 90% of the subjects in my e-mails have been titled "Hey" "What's Up?" "Sick" "Sorry, can 't make it," So..." or "Untitled."

seems if you do away w/the subject line and perfunctory greeting showing a fragment of the message is likely most informative of all

like most email clients already give you a bit of the message and its pretty invaluable right

xpost it's like they invented some way of previewing the message

http://officeimg.vo.msecnd.net/en-us/files/614/323/ZA010285137.jpg

glad to see the @ sign gone. hated having to press a shift key.

more room for hashtags now #hashtags

^^ involves shift key, what a disaster

like most email clients already give you a bit of the message and its pretty invaluable right

"Tired of not having enough energy to get your sex on? For only $59.99 we'll sell four bottles--" tells me more about the e-mails contents than any subject could.

more room for hashtags now #hashtags

― ice cr?m, Monday, 15 November 2010 20:16 Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^^ involves shift key, what a disaster

― sarahel, Monday, 15 November 2010 20:17 Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

uk keyboards ahead of the game here

#jealous

"Can I delete an individual message from a conversation?

At this time, you cannot delete an individual message from a conversation. You can, however, archive or permanently delete an entire conversation."

Wow

there goes my job in UK data entry.

"At this time you cannot delete individual files from your computer. You can, however, choose to set your laptop on fire and then throw it in the pool."

my pool is dead my clouds are free.

#howthefutureshouldbe

Wait, there's more!

Will applications be able to message me through the new Facebook Messages?

When you use an application, that application must request permission to message you through Facebook.

The new Facebook Messages also gives you a variety ways to control which messages actually reach you.

It goes against Facebook policy for developers to access Facebook information without permission, including usernames or user IDs. That said, we know that we can’t prevent this in every case. Some things to keep in mind:

* Facebook aggressively prosecutes spammers.
* Facebook employs sophisticated spam-prevention systems.
* New Messages gives you ways to control which messages reach you.
* Setting up a Facebook email address is optional.

so the short answer is "of course they can."