Tonight it was announced big news of Facebook, that should revolutionize the way of communicating between people. Now already use 350 Millions of users the news features from Facebook, and more than 4 Billion messages are exchanged daily between "Friends" on Facebook. Mark Zuckerberg was Facebook's vision of a “modern” Messaging system before, with the following features:
- An integrated system – includes not only Email, but also SMS or chat. Email is a way of communicating, but it is just one among all other types of communication. (Telephony/Voice over IP should not be integrated in the foreseeable)
- Informal – more a conversation as an official correspondence.
- Immediately – immediate notification and direct communication
- Personal/personal – the person is in the foreground, not the single message
- Easy to use
- Compact – Less features than email today
- Short messages
Relationship of memory
A highlight is certainly the complete history of entertainment, the entire Exchange of messages was maintained, as a kind of “Relationship history” or the modern form of the shoe boxes, old letters stored in the. The focus is on communication between 2 Persons or within a particular group.
Who sees his classic email inbox, sees a flood of messages, important times, unimportant times, times with annex, times without. The unit of exchange of information is Message. This unit varies with the Facebook messaging system in Person. It's always about the entire communication, No matter which way, between People.Here acts in the so-called “social Inbox” (Social Inbox) the personal social network of the user as more meaningful automatic filter. In the “social Inbox” – the man, perhaps with “universal personal communications Exchange storage” could rewrite, land as a preset messages only from friends and their friends. Whether this will also “social spam messages” lead to, It remains to be seen. All other messages are in a folder “Messages” filed and can be viewed there from time to time.
Anyone can in the future – Optional – also an E-Mail address on Facebook to receive under name@Facebook.com. Facebook employees give their previous E-mail addresses and receive Mitarbeiter@FB.com.The rollout stages via invitations in the next few months.
Texpress the new messaging platform is the Microsoft Office Web apps be, Another advantage for Microsoft in its cloud strategy, in particular also with regard to Office 365, of Microsoft's new cloud offerings.
An initial analysis
Tempting thought, to handle his personal communications via Facebook. And the integration of “Classic” Other contacts must be also not immediately a Facebook member email recipients, a crucial hurdle of the previously closed messaging system, Overcome them should contribute to the success of Facebook.
The communication knows no “Forget”. It may be advantageous, to be able to understand a complete history of Exchange with a person, but there is no mechanism, once said/written to automatically destroy. In a normal chat, also the content of entertainment is completed with the end of the conversation, what contributes to an open Exchange. Although it is possible also in email, the Exchange trace many years, If you deliberately picks up emails, but on Facebook, it will be much easier, Statements a person to rummage out. Just think of insults exchanged in the heat of battle or allegations, They then formed. even later still legally could be recycled.
Facebook-messaging a bit reminiscent of Google wave – that previously prevailed in any way. On Facebook, it could work but – After all there is reached the critical mass necessary electronically networked people even before the start.
Facebook is suitable also for internal corporate communication?
Facebook also suitable for internal corporate communication? Groups protected by setting now possible in principle already. Before but confidential business communications in the “Facebook-cloud” shifting is, must certainly have a lot of homework with regard to privacy be made on Facebook. Who wants to read advertising by the competitors already on the right side of his Facebook inbox, When he discussed just about a product.
The development is exciting. But the success is related to the protection of privacy and the data exchanged and fall, a domain, in the Facebook so far not too positive about talk has made.
