Did I Miss A Facebook Memo on Messages
So I’ve just spotted a Facebook “You Got Mail!” message in in my regular email inbox (and yes, I even hear a crappy AOL style voice in my head when I type it…) and it took me a minute to recall why I felt I had missed something.
And there it was. In the body of the email, wasn’t just a link back to my Facebook Message Box, but the actual contents of the message was in the message alert. I didn’t need to click through and rack up another page-view on Facebook to read a message!
I recall this one of the things that I (and others) found distasteful about how Facebook acted. So did I miss the memo that this ‘feature’ had been added in all the fun and games in a teacup last week with Scoble et al? Or has this been there for a while and nobody talks to me in that special way anymore?
I seem to remember reading about this, somewhere, perhaps a couple of months ago. It was suggested it was a sign fb was starting to buckle under the ‘walled garden’ criticisms.
I noticed this a few weeks ago. Personally it’s great as I can check out messages and wall posts within Gmail at work and not have to load up Facebook.
As for announcements, I can’t remember seeing any from FB about this or any other implementation apart from when they added the applications support.
-t-
p.s. loving the new theme, I’m also trying to move away from Hemingway.