Facebook on Monday announced what CEO Mark Zuckerberg described as the next generation of messaging. It spans across a user’s messaging systems, offering retention of a user’s conversation history and a social inbox. “We don’t think that a modern messaging system is going to be email,” Zuckerberg told his audience at the press conference. “The weight and friction you have when thinking of the address you want to send an email to, write ‘Hi, Mom’ at the top, conclude it with all this extra stuff you have to add to an email really adds a lot of friction to the process of sending an email.”
Facebook Casts Wide Net Across Social Chatter
Posted by: Richard Adhikari November 15, 2010 02:09 PMFacebook on Monday announced what CEO Mark Zuckerberg described as the next generation of messaging. It spans across a user’s messaging systems, offering retention of a user’s conversation history and a social inbox. “We don’t think that a modern messaging system is going to be email,” Zuckerberg told his audience at the press conference. “The weight and friction you have when thinking of the address you want to send an email to, write ‘Hi, Mom’ at the top, conclude it with all this extra stuff you have to add to an email really adds a lot of friction to the process of sending an email.”