Facebook launches new communication system
On Monday, the social network Facebook announced the launch of its own email system. It will allow users to send various types of messages.
In future, internet users could have an email address ending in Facebook.com from which they could send email, text and chat messages, said Facebook founder and director Mark Zuckerberg in San Francisco. Following the launch on Monday, the system will be gradually expanded over the coming months. E-mails are just one way of using this system, said Zuckerberg. Ultimately, it should allow all types of communication to be seamlessly combined. "This is not an email killer," Zuckerberg clarified, after the new Facebook offering had previously been described as direct competition to the email providers Hotmail, Yahoo and Gmail. However, with more than 500 million users worldwide, Facebook certainly has the potential to challenge the industry leaders for market leadership.
