Just two days ago, Facebook released its unified "Social Inbox" where all the Facebook messages will be aggregated with e-mails. Yes, every Facebook user can get an example@facebook.com email ID. It was a rather daring move for Facebook to release an e-mail feature, given the massive prominence of e-mail providers like Gmail, Hotmail or Yahoo. But it could be a winning move too, given the oceanic 500 million subscribers that Facebook has. But would you really want to use Facebook for sending/receiving e-mails on a day-to-day basis? Would you shift your primary e-mail address to their service entirely? We asked this same question to our Techtree junta and this is what we've got till now.





At the time of writing this, a major 68 percent people expressed there negation towards moving to Facebook email. A small 18 percent Facebook loyalists said Yes, and another smaller 14 percent said they aren't entirely convinced and can't decide now (thus leaving the possibility for them to maybe make the shift in the future). We also asked people to state the reasons why they would or would not want to switch, and many had quite a firm opinion about their decision:

Marex from Vadodara said, "Currently I am happy with my mail service, so I have no intentions of switching to another mail service. I already have many accounts to manage, one more would be asking for too much to handle."

Techtree reader Pradeep from Hyderabad is just one of many people who voiced his concern by saying, "Everyone knows about the security issues in facebook. So it would not be a wise decision to make the Facebook messaging system as the primary communication system."


If you want to read all the insightful opinions given by our readers (or want to give yours), click here. So now, the initial consensus about the Facebook email feature doesn't seem to have that big a positive response. Do you think this will change once everybody starts using it? One good thing to derive out of it - there will be no need to log into different websites for communication, which is one of Facebook's major purposes. And although they try to give a sense of security to the user's data, something or the other has kept popping up in the past. Thus, many would be cautious over these security and privacy related aspects of using Facebook for email.


By the way, if you haven't voted, there's an opinion box to your right.