The long awaited Facebook Messaging has arrived. This new and advanced system features Seamless Messaging, Conversation History and Social History and lets you communicate with your friends using IM, SMS and email.
This system was earlier dubbed as Project Titan but this is not any “Gmail Killer” as it was always rumored but actually a better way to stay connected with your friends. However this is currently invitation based. So you’ll be needing to request one at the official site.
Features
Seamless Messaging
You decide how you want to talk to your friends: via SMS, chat, email or Messages. They will receive your message through whatever medium or device is convenient for them, and you can both have a conversation in real time.
An @facebook.com email address will also be provided to every person on Facebook so that they can share with friends over email, whether they’re on Facebook or not. It willalso support IMAP in future.
Your mail id will look something like this: your-facebook-username@facebook.com
Conversation History
Messages is built for communicating with your friends, so it made sense to organize primarily around people. All of your messages with someone will be together in one place, whether they are sent over chat, email or SMS. You can see everything you’ve discussed with each friend as a single conversation.
The Social Inbox
With new Messages, your Inbox will only contain messages from your friends and their friends. All other messages will go into an Other folder where you can look at them separately and even move it easily into the Inbox. Spam messages will be discarded automatically.
You can also change your account settings to be even more limited and bounce any emails that aren’t exclusively from friends.
Watch this short tour of FB Messaging:
How to request an Invitation
To get your hands on the new Facebook Messages, follow these simple steps:
Step 1. Head over to Facebook Messages: http://www.facebook.com/about/messages/
Step 2. Hit on the “Request an Invite” button. And that’s it. Wait till you get one.
By the way, Facebook has also quietly updated their iPhone app with the new Social Messaging Feature built-in. Get it from the App Store here. (Sadly, No cookie for Android users at the moment)
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Looks like Gmail,Yahoo and windows live mail have to try different innovative ways to competite with facebook.
waiting for invite man to try my hands on it:)
I am too waiting for the Same since 2 days