Facebook Towards World Domination



by Alex Blaken


Facebook has recently revealed the start of its very own online messaging system. More than just the basic Facebook chat which users are familiar with, the innovative service will above all offer an '@facebook.com' email.

Up until this time, many of us have seen a lot of email companies take center stage. The 90s saw a significant amount of portal websites supplying email addresses. The biggest suppliers were AOL, Yahoo and Hotmail. It is challenging to think about but at this point in time, email addresses suffered from rather small data capacities. Even moving into the 2000s we continued to see limits on inbox capacity. Nonetheless, Google, with the launch of Google Mail (Gmail), offered unrestricted inbox memory space. Coupled with its clean, uncluttered style and design it has become one of the major competitors in the webmail sector. The higher level service made various other email companies enhance their own services and style.

Step forward, Facebook. The site has become a zeitgeist for the decade. Inside just a handful of years we have witnessed it move from a closed, exclusive online social network for university students to a worldwide sensation with in excess of 500 million members and commonly ranks inside of the top 2 most used sites for a lot of countries. Facebook promised to provide each and every user an '@facebook.com' email address.

You may possibly think, so what? It is simply an email address, similar to so many others in the world. Nevertheless, this means much more. Facebook is now stepping beyond the social network market and branching out into the world of communicating. This is very significant. If just about all 500 million customers get a Facebook email address it will become the biggest email company worldwide. And when text based communication is becoming increasingly more valuable than direct speech conversations, it's easy to imagine how Facebook will soon become much more than just a site to talk to your family or spy on exes.

After it has been released throughout the world, what next for? One of many important features of the net is the utility factor - the best way to utilize the net to make specific jobs easier for you to do. One of the greatest benefits of the web is its ability to help you manage your time and control duties more effectively. Facebook could undoubtedly make a further advance into this territory by offering its customers a personalized homepage which they are able to use as their stating point on the Internet. We've seen, with Facebook Connect, Facebook's attempt at being a password manager. It could possibly provide a standalone password manager product for sites which do not offer Facebook Connect yet. Additionally, as a personalized homepage it could possibly provide an online bookmarking program letting you save bookmarks online. It may even enter the Internet browser market and release its own web browser!




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