Comments on: Facebook Unveils Its Messaging System—Just Don’t Call It Email

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 23:39:34 +0000

I don’t see why what I currently do – forward everything to Gmail and label it as flexibly as I want – isn’t just as good. This allows me to:
* Track things as far back as 15 Nov. 2004, when I started Gmail. I certainly don’t mind not having Facebook posts captured in it – there’s too much spam there already – but I do have notifications in Gmail, with content, from a variety of sites I use to communicate with friends, colleagues, etc.
* Gmail also prioritizes email
* Gmail targets advertising according to my content, which I don’t thrill to – but it’s certainly not original to Facebook.
* Gmail allows me to save extremely large files.
* Integrated Google docs lets me view a broad variety of files.

It seems none of this is new, and that using Facebook, I’d be starting from scratch re: richness of content, content taxonomy, etc. Why on earth would I switch?

By: imnobody

imnobody — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 17:14:19 +0000

One day I tried to log in in my Facebook account and they told me that my account was suspended because me having violated the terms and conditions of the service (WHICH WAS NOT TRUE: I have barely used Facebook the days before and I had done nothing forbidden in their policy).
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I was redirected to a page. I submitted my complain and, after two seconds, I received an automatic email telling something along the lines of “You have violated our terms and conditions and your account has been suspended. This decision is final and there’s nothing you can do”.
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I searched an email address to report these cases. There is one. I sent an email. They never repplied.

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I lost contact with new friends, lots of pictures, etc. I tried not to open other Facebook account but my friends kept telling me about the lovely pictures of my 3-years-old niece that my sister was posting regularly in Facebook (I am an expat)

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So I opened other account and I do nothing with it for fear of being banned. Every time I try to open my account from another country (I travel a lot), I have to pass a cumbersome process of verification of my identity (that consists in identifying my Facebook friends in the pictures they have tagged: try this with a picture of a cute teddy bear where everybody is tagged).

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Am I supposed to trust these guys about my email? No way. I have had no problem with Gmail for years. You should not trust Facebook it either. My case is an example that Facebook considers the user like crap.

By: Sunnshyne

Sunnshyne — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 06:09:08 +0000

There is NO way I am giving these privacy thieves any more of my info. They change their page all the time and don’t even give you fair warning and they f**k with the privacy settings on everything to the point that you cannot play games without the whole f**king work knowing all your info…NOW they want to take over my email…NO WAY IN HELL!!

By: Amos Zeeberg (Discover Web Editor)

Amos Zeeberg (Discover Web Editor) — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 03:58:15 +0000

Is that you, Zuckerbot?

By: Romeo Vitelli

Romeo Vitelli — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 21:45:34 +0000

Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated.