Today, Facebook introduced a new messaging system that will include e-mail, instant messages, Facebook messages and SMS.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg launched what he calls a "modern messaging system" to handle different kinds of messages and bring them together under one social umbrella.
The system is designed to save all messages for five years, meaning users will have a history of their communications.
Although people will now be able to have a facebook.com e-mail address, Andrew Bosworth, a software engineer at Facebook, noted that the new system will work with other e-mail systems, such as Gmail and Yahoo mail."There was a lot of press leading up to this saying this is an e-mail killer," Zuckerberg added. "This is not an e-mail killer. It's a messaging system that has e-mail as one part of it. I don't expect people to wake up tomorrow and say, 'I'm going to shut down my Yahoo account or my Gmail account.' We expect that more people will IM and more people will message just because it's simpler and easier and it's more fun and valuable to use."
A few users will be invited to use the new messaging system starting today and will be rolled out to all users over the next several months.
Do you think this will change the way the world communicates?