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Soon email will follow the fate of postal letters
By siliconindia
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Tuesday, 23 November 2010, 17:37 IST |
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Bangalore: Mark Zuckerberg, founder of social networking giant Facebook said that soon Email will follow the fate of postal letters, which paved the way for e-mails. If you look at the current scenario the e-mail usage has already declined and the modern world is out of e-mails. About Facebook's new online messaging he said, "It is not email. It handles email along with all the different ways you want to communicate."
Zuckerberg said 500 million people using Facebook would have access to a Facebook.com email address and even hundred years back will be saved into the user's mailbox. The new e-mail system from Facebook is based on instant messaging as well as online chat. Texting, e-mailing and instant messaging will be included as a part of Facebook 'feed'. It can also filter spam. Texts, email or instant messages will all come into one 'feed'.
Whereas computer security firm Sophos said that Facebook's new online messaging service makes users of the social networking site more vulnerable to identity theft by cybercriminals and this brings a question: Will there be a secure mode of communication in future?