Facebook's new messaging system incorporates email—as well as SMS, IMs, and Facebook Chat—but it's not smart to ditch your old email for a Facebook.com address, argues Adam Pash at Lifehacker, explaining three main reasons:
- It's not email, as even Mark Zuckerberg says. All emails with the same user are treated like a single conversation, which is fine for short real-time chats but no good if you prefer more in-depth conversation or if you want to communicate with the same person using different threads.
- You're putting all your eggs in one basket, and it may be tough to get them out again. Facebook may have opened up a little more lately but the "fact is—if you decide to leave Facebook—the service has never been good at letting you take your ball and play elsewhere," Pash writes
- Your workplace might block it. Facebook was the second most commonly blocked site last year, while no email providers were in the top 10.
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