How the Facebook mail

The e-mail enters the 21st Century: with a new mail service will continue the social network Facebook, the various digital communication channels to bundle its online platform. News.de has summarized the key changes.

What is new about Facebook's Universal Service?
Facebook provides a uniform surface to combine all known and existing communication channels. All e-mails, Facebook messages, instant messages and SMS should be run together in a mailbox, where it manages.

Will my e-mail address soon be obsolete?
Each user can theoretically give up its existing e-mail address and communicate as a Facebook user over the network also with people who are not members of the network. This can request its own Facebook address that will be composed of the first and last name and the suffix "@ facebook.com." But this is not a must.

What are the advantages of the new Facebook service?
The big advantage for the user is that all contacts can be managed with a service. Moreover, the real-time communications are possible, as is the case, messaging and chat, or instant.

How much space has the Facebook inbox?
About the size of the mailbox, there is as yet no concrete information. The space is but (as with Google's Gmail) be so large that arise during normal use, no space problems.

The new service will cost money?
No, like any other Facebook applications is also the new service will be and remain free. However, are displayed on the user customized advertising, as in Facebook so far has been the case.

When can I use the new system?
Facebook will test the new feature in the next few months all its users. During launch the service in the U.S. in the coming weeks, should have to wait German Facebook users probably a little longer. The release of the service is scheduled through individual invitations.

Can I archive my email communication?
Similar to Microsoft Outlook or Mozilla Thunderbird can sort incoming messages different folders are created. It is also possible via a message tree view of the earlier conversations.

Can attachments (attachments) sent?
Yes, the new system will also attachments can be sent and opened. Facebook offers it even possible to open such attachments in Microsoft Office formats without Office installed.

Will there still be a subject line?
No, Facebook dispensed in the usual e-mail constituents such as subject lines, copy (CC) and blind copies (Bcc). By this, the Facebook concept seem spontaneous - like a chat service.

What about data protection?
An issue of concern. Facebook founder Zuckerberg acknowledged in the publication that it will be necessary for the smooth running of the new service to collect the email addresses of people who interact with Facebook users, even a member of the network, however.

Can I get my Facebook mailbox with Outlook or Thunderbird?
No, the retrieval of the Facebook-mail accounts with e-mail programs, Microsoft Outlook and Mozilla Thunderbird is not yet planned.

How safe is the new mailbox from spam?
Use the settings should be faxed if only Facebook friends and their friends can send messages, or whether all e-mails are received. This is a spam be stopped.