[jim_h]

It's not going to replace email.

Seems like it's a system for your friends. Their focus isn't for things like your bank account or anything else. It's very similar to email, but due to their knowledge of your friends they can simplify the white/black lists and prioritize communications.

[mikeryan]

Still a little fuzzy on the details but it sounds like its not supposed to replace email, but instead enhance it with an overlay service?

My understanding is that Email is being replaced for many (younger peeps) by SMS, IM and Facebook messaging already. Its funny when I look at it I actually rarely send notes to friends with my personal email anymore. Email has become my professional way to communicate but with Friends and Family its fading away. It looks like Facebook is trying to capitalize on this trend by adding an overlay on top of all those services.

I have to say this is really in some ways more interesting then an Fmail announcment.

[jim_h]

It's strange to me that some people don't use email. It seems unavoidable at this point in time.

Some of important things that go through my email In box are my order statuses from online stores, bill reminders/confirmations, password reset emails from website.. It's seems so hard to avoid email unless you don't do any of those things.

It doesn't seem to be really merging communications, but trying to separate it out between friends and other. It seems dangerous that any important emails go to your fb account since it might get dumped into the 'other' folder and possibly not get looked at for along time or never. People won't be getting rid of their other (work/personal) accounts, so fb is really just another account that they'll have to check.