“It” is Facebook’s new, Whatever-you-do-don’t-call-it-email-but-hey-here’s-a-Facebook-email-address-for-you email and messaging system. Facebook says it’s more like chat; and it’s definitely not an email killer.

Who’s right? We’ll all decide that collectively as the invites get sent out. Until then, here’s how Facebook’s new Messages system works, via a screenshot-filled PDF distributed at today’s news conference.

How Do I Get The New Facebook Messages?

The new Messages is being rolled out “gradually,” as in over several months. Facebook users can request an invite and cross their fingers. When you’re in, you’ll see a pop-up window like this:

Clicking on that “See What’s New” button will take you to another page where you can review the basics of the new Messages and confirm that you want it.

How Do I Get A Facebook Email Address?

Once you’ve received your invite and confirmed that you want the new Messages system, Facebook will invite you to claim your Facebook.com email address. It’ll match your current Facebook username. (If you don’t have one of those, you can get one at the same time.)

After I’m In, How Does The New Messages Work?

One of the immediate changes you’ll notice after you start using the new Facebook Messages is the naming of your inboxes/folders. Rather than the current “messages” and “updates” naming scheme, the new Messages just uses “messages” and “other.” You’ll first see the “Messages” box, and that’s where Facebook says it’ll prioritize all the messages from your friends. Everything else gets sent to the “other” folder — that includes messages from Facebook Groups and from Pages that you’ve liked.

Another big change is the integration of messages into one system. If you have a Facebook.com email and use Facebook’s chat tool, all of this comes together the way Facebook wants. If you provide your phone number, you can bring SMS messages into the system, too. This screenshot shows how messages will appear in both the main in box and in Facebook Chat, and you can reply from either interface:

As you can see on that image, there’s also a new tool to include attachments with messages. (see the small icon on the far left below “Write a reply…”)

And, yes, there’s a search element here, too. Facebook says it has “revamped” how message search works. You can search for either the person you were chatting with or for the topics you were talking about. You can also add people to conversations, remove yourself, or forward conversations to others.

Is Facebook Messages Private?

There are a number of Q&As related to privacy in the Facebook help topic for the new Messages system. By default, anyone on Facebook can still send you a message and, if you get a Facebook.com email address, anyone else with an email address can email you if they know your Facebook.com address. But you can change that via the privacy settings for your Facebook account; the options for who can send you messages are “everyone,” “friends,” and “friends of friends.”

You can also choose who to share your Facebook.com email address with, but keep in mind that any thinking person will know that your email address is the same as your Facebook username.

What If My Friends Don’t Have It Yet?

Once you’re in the new Messages system, you’ll have a number of invites that you can share with friends. Just like, errrr … Gmail.

Facebook as you know the top social networking site has recently introduced its own email service which allow you to send and receive messages using an email address (username@facebook.com). But don’t think of it as a regular email service as you will find no usual email elements like subject lines, cc and bcc which you’ll find in most of the popular email service providers like Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail etc… An other interesting concept they are providing is that you can restrict messages from a particular sender with simple setup.

How do I get a Facebook Email Address?

It’s so simple. As this is a new feature, you need to request for an email address invitation from your facebook page.

1.Login to your Facebook Account
2.Click here to Send a request. In the next window, press “Request an Invitation” button.

3.It will take some time to get your account activated. You’ll get a message alert once it is accepted.
4.You can then select your Username for your facebook email which will be “Username@facebook.com”
5.Once your Facebook email id is set up, you can share your Facebook email ID with your friends. All email messages from friends will land in messages section of your Facebok account.

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GMAIL (Google Mail) lets you used advanvced HTML signatures in your email with this Firefox addin.

So, if you want to create a Facebook style signature graphic for your email signature you need to:

• Use Firefox
• install the Blank Canvas Gmail Signature FireFox Add-on
• Register for Facebook (duh!)
• Create a Facebook Profile Badge
• Copy the generated HTML from the Badge into your BC GMAIL signature (or wherever else you want to use the code)
• thats it!

It just doesn’t get any simpler than that.

The signature graphic can be in a JPG format or as a little JavaScript which allows clickable links. I particularly like the way that as you do things in Facebook, the badge automatically updates, so I include my blog info on my badge and the email signature updates with new blog info as I write some.. you could equally include photos or videos.

Zuckerberg outlined three features that will define Facebook’s new offering, which Zuckerberg described as “the way the future should work”: Seamless messaging (users can chat with people through whatever medium they choose, be it SMS, email, or IM), conversation history (“see everything you’ve discussed with each friend as a single conversation”), and a social inbox for “filtering exactly the messages you want to see.”

“This is not an email killer,” Zuckerberg said. “This is a messaging system that includes email as one part of it.”

Facebook’s latest evolution of Messages ties in multiple forms of communication–SMS, IMs, email–from Facebook and other platforms to allow users to communicate in real-time, on-the-go through whichever messaging tool they prefer. “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,” Facebook wrote in a blog post

Facebook will be rolling the product out over the coming months, initially via invite-only. All Facebook users will eventually be offered “@facebook.com” email addresses that match their public usernames, although they will have the option not to have an “@facebook.com” email account.

Facebook’s Andrew Bosworth noted, “The system is definitely not email,” adding, “We’ve it modeled more after chat.”

Zuckerberg called email “slow” and also emphasized that the new product is “not email.” “We don’t think modern messaging system will be email,” he noted, saying that he believes seven characteristics that we will come to define “next generation” messaging: seamless, informal, immediate, personal, simple, minimal, and short.

Most popular Social media News websites reported that the new Facebook email service will be definitely a challenge to the current giant email services like Google’s Gmail, Yahoo Mail, AOL Mail, Hotmail etc. This is because it’s very easy for Facebook to attract its own 500 million plus users to it’s products.  Facebook’s new full-fledged Email service – Titan will have some outstanding features than all current Email services. Social News Media website TechCrunch.com called Facebook’s new email Service as “Gmail Killer“.

Facebook Email Service

I have published the news of Facebook Email Service among my friends here on my village and they have asked some questions about it to me. Here I’m sharing those questions and the answers that I gave them. These answers might not be exactly true, but are the best of my knowledge.

When is Facebook Email Service going to Launch?

News reports says that the Facebook Email service will be launching on coming Monday, 22-11-2010.

Will Facebook’s E-Mail Service kill Gmail, Yahoo Mail, AOL Mail and Hotmail?

No – As per knowledge that I gained after analyzing the recent news about it, Facebook’s email service won’t kill popular email services like Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Hotmail, AOL Mail etc.

Why Facebook Email Service won’t kill popular Email Services?

I’m using Gmail since long time and it’s my favorite personal email service. This is because Gmail is fast, secure and more over I’m using Google’s many services. So it’s very comfortable for me to use a single account with all Google’s services and with Gmail. At the same time, I’m using Yahoo Mail and is my favorite for contacting my clients and Hotmail for my business purposes. Also I use Yahoo’s many services with a single yahoo mail account. Yahoo mail is advanced and is best for chatting on-line. And I use Hotmail for my business purpose because I feel Hotmail is the most secure mail service for business purpose. So I use all these three popular service Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail every day for different purpose. I never use AOL, but I heard it’s having a lot of fans and some of my friends recommend me to use it and they claim it’s the best service for them. Like me, most of my friends use emails on different service for different purpose. So even though Facebook email became popular, no-one is going to leave old email services… Who is going to leave his old powerful favorite Bullet even-after he got a brand new Bike as gift? All these email services are free and so no one is going to leave anything.

Do I use Facebook Email Service?

Yes, definitely I will use Facebook Email Service. Do you say No to your father when he is offering a new bike to you as a birth day gift even-though you are having a car?

What are the uses of Facebook Email Service?

The important uses of Facebook new email service are

1. with Facebook email service you get Short email id. Your username@facebook.com
2. You can integrate it with your existing facebook account
3. You can easily spread your email id among facebook friends
4. You can expect some outstanding features for facebook email service.

More uses can be shared with you only after using it. So please be patient.

Despite very rare news reports against the upcoming email service of Facebook, many news medias and people are awaiting for it’s launch. You can read an interesting article about it from Yahoo news here: http://news.yahoo.com/s/atlantic/20101112/cm_atlantic/willfacebooksemailservicedemolishgmailandhotmail5782

Update: As per the information that we received Facebook Email Service would have been available to it’s users by 22-11-2010, but till now they haven’t launched.