Facebook - NEW! Send Messages To Friends and E-Mail Addresses

Just announced on the Facebook Official blog. You can now send messages to people outside of Facebook. You can now add an e-mail address aswell as using the friends lookup.

Generally when you are in Facebook you have to invite the your friends to join facebook, then when they have joined you can send messages to them. But now you can add e-mail address to the message. Then they won’t have to join. The e-mail address will then be added to your friends selector so you don’t have to remember them.

I expect there is a message on the e-mail they receive saying “come join us!”

Here is what the Offical Facebook Blog post said:

If you’re like most people, you may have a few stubborn friends who haven’t joined Facebook…yet. This can make reaching friends complicated—there are some friends you can send a Facebook message, and others you have to email. Not anymore. Now, when you’re writing messages, you can send the message to people on Facebook, and to people not on Facebook.

Now you can enter a friend’s email address into the To: line when you send a message or share an album, and Facebook will email them the message. Your friends will be able to reply without signing up, and they will be able to see content you share with them. Keep in mind that all rules of privacy still apply; some Facebook content that you share (photos, groups, notes, etc.) won’t be visible to your friend.

Facebook will add any email addresses that you message to your “friend selector”, so you don’t have to remember everyone’s email address all the time. Also, if you message someone who is on Facebook but you use their email instead of their name, we’ll automatically forward the message to their Facebook Inbox. As we continue to make Facebook more useful for everyone, these changes mean that there’s no need to switch between Facebook and email for your daily communication needs.

It’s a nice little change but I am not even sure it is amazing news. The marketing they will get is probably the only positive. What do you think? Worth it??

Monday, August 20th, 2007

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