Facebook Wants to Replace My Email?

It’s a move to supplant your webmail account, too. Facebook writes: As we continue to make Facebook more useful for everyone, these changes mean that there’s no need to switch between Facebook and email for your daily communication needs. In plain english: we want to own the webmail space (they even add that one of their engineers will never use regular email again, thanks to the feature).

That’s a shame for users like me, who find it infuriating to get a mail in my regular inbox saying something akin to “you have a mail at Facebook, but you’ll need to log in to Facebook to see it” (all social networks do this, as you know – I suspect even MyMash probably does). If Facebook did want to supplant webmail, it would need to substantially upgrade its offering to match Gmail or better.