Comment by fragmede
16 years ago
How much 'real-er' does FB messaging need to get?
I ask because FB messaging, like Gmail, is already available on the two platforms that matter today - web browsers and smartphones. Yeah, you need a FB account to use FB messaging, but if you don't have Facebook, you're not a real person, at least according to Quora (along with any other FB-connect only site). (Quora has since backpedaled on that stance.)
The obvious interoperability move - letting you reply-by-email to FB messages is something they'll never do, because it means you don't have to sign into FB, which they can't have.
well, they could add categorization/labels for one.
Or more concretly: the ability to receive messages from people you don't already have as contacts.