[yesplorer]

Facebook on the shutting down of their email service:

"It seems wrong that an email message from your best friend gets sandwiched between a bill and a bank statement," the company wrote in its announcement blog post for the feature. The service didn't catch on, perhaps in part because Facebook never truly created a friendly or familiar interface for emailing. [0]

In much the same vain, wouldn't it be that users wouldn't like to tolerate their friends who are going to bug them about the $20 they owe from last time since now they have no excuse to avoid payment. Because they can do it right there in the messenger?

This is going to be a whole new level of friends/family and money don't get on pretty well. Maybe just me though.

[0] http://www.theverge.com/2014/2/24/5443454/facebook-retires-i...

[EarthLaunch]

That possibility a really good point. It gives a lot of people, whether they owe or are owed, a strong reason to avoid actively using FB, the same way people avoid logging into chat because they don't want to feel obligated to chat with certain people. People who owe will feel guilty and not want to appear, while people who are owed will feel angry that they're not being paid back when it's so simple.