Facebook Messaging Announced
In an event today, Facebook unveiled a modern messaging system aiming to simplify the one-on-one conversation regardless of the technology.
With the increasing number of messaging on Facebook, 
350 million people actively using messaging the social networking site. 4 billion messages shared daily. And this communication is, by-and-large, private, one-to-one. This messaging is growing faster than Facebook’s users. More people are using this for private communication. This has lead Facebook to create a modern messaging system with focus on being seamless, informal, immediate, personal.
Facebook users can have a @facebook.com email address to use universally, but within Facebook, users should expect email is just part of the messaging system.
From Facebook blog:
Seamless Messaging
Today I’m excited to announce the next evolution of Messages. You decide how you want to talk to your friends: via SMS, chat, email or Messages. They will receive your message through whatever medium or device is convenient for them, and you can both have a conversation in real time. You shouldn’t have to remember who prefers IM over email or worry about which technology to use. Simply choose their name and type a message.
Conversation History
Messages is built for communicating with your friends, so it made sense to organize primarily around people. All of your messages with someone will be together in one place, whether they are sent over chat, email or SMS. You can see everything you’ve discussed with each friend as a single conversation.
The Social Inbox
It seems wrong that an email message from your best friend gets sandwiched between a bill and a bank statement. It’s not that those other messages aren’t important, but one of them is more meaningful. With new Messages, your Inbox will only contain messages from your friends and their friends. All other messages will go into an Other folder where you can look at them separately.
If someone you know isn’t on Facebook, that person’s email will initially go into the Other folder. You can easily move that conversation into the Inbox, and all the future conversations with that friend will show up there.
The feature will be rolling in months to come.
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