Facemail? E-mail As We Know It, Is Dead.

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E-mail as we know it is dead. It’s too slow, and ineffective.   There was once a time ( back in the early 90’s) where people actually thanked you for e-mailing them. In the 1990’s spam messages were far and few between and people actually read 99% of their e-mail.

Today, ask any internet marketer and they will tell you that e-mail as an effective marketing medium is losing its value — fast! Marketers are now turning to a more receptive audiences with RSS (Real Simple Syndication).

So, what does Facebook have to do with all this? If your not aware, a few weeks ago Facebook launched a feature in its messaging system that allows you to message friends that are not currently on Facebook.  You can now put any e-mail address in the to: field and Facebook will e-mail them. Your friends will also be able to respond to the e-mail without having to sign-up for Facebook, pretty cool eh?

Facebook will even add previously used e-mail address to your “friend selector” so you don’t have to remember everyone’s e-mail address all the time.  And if you happen to enter a friend’s e-mail address who is already on Facebook, Facebook will forward it to their Facebook inbox.

I messaged Facebook Engineer Luke Shepard regarding this new feature. I wanted to know if Facebook had any plans to allow us to enter our  current e-mail address and have facebook fetch our mail from the server. I’m awaiting his response. This is a feature I’d like to see — it would be nice to be able to have a one-stop-shop.

What are your thoughts?