What’s going to attract customers to the new email? Well, will not only have the standard email, but it will combine that to instant messaging and cell phone text messages, and saving every message. Not only is it a three in one, Facebook’s messaging system will automatically create contact groups, giving priority messages to people who are you “Facebook Friends”
Some of the statistics of how Facebook is dominating are seen in the above image. Also, Internet users now collectively spend nearly as much time per month on Facebook as on Google's sites! Google now sees Facebook as a threat. Since Google and Facebook are going at each other's throats, are other companies going to create their own email addresses or something completely new to attract customers to them?
This is very interesting. "Google now sees Facebook as a threat". I kind of disagree with this statement because even though the new email Facebook is creating will probably attract all of the Facebook users, Google is far more ahead. Google does not depend on this email but has other things for the public such as products.
ReplyDeleteI do not think other companies are going to create their own email address, this is not an area where companies struggle in competition. I believe the Facebook email address will only be one more with specific luxuries.
There are:
ReplyDelete6,845,609,960 humans
1,966,514,816 Internet users
623,760,460 Facebook users (http://content.usatoday.com/communities/technologylive/post/2010/10/three-stats-that-reveal-much-about-our-digital-culture/1?csp=34tech)
Meaning, around 7% of the world's population is on Facebook, and this number is still increasing. If all the Facebook users automatically get there email addresses and also have gmail accounts, they could suggest to their friends to create a Facebook address because it would be the new "thing". That is what could be a potential threat to Google.