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MySpace to offer email addresses to users
- iamdave 18y agoI tip my hat to MySpace. Losing traction to a competitor putting out kitschy services (i.e. Facebook and it's many applications)? Put out a service that actually revolves around what your users care about and use. I know personally quite a number of people that use MySpace and Facebook as a means of communicating with close friends, as opposed to traditional email; often which is reserved for more professional or less personal communication requirements. Already though, I can tell there are going to be detractors "People wont take an @myspace.com email seriously" but I truly believe the idea behind this is to capitalize on connections already made, and simply remove the abstraction of a profile page to talk to the people on your friends list with much easier access. MySpace just jumped ahead of the curve.
- pclark 18y agoI agree. @myspace would also offer a gorgeous lock in to users to their social network. I've always been suprised social networks didn't offer email /just because/.
- unalone 18y agoFacebook lets you send email, not receive. I've always hoped they'd make an email system, if only because they've shown themselves to be experts at avoiding clutter.
- pclark 18y agoi guess the (small) issue with facebook is that you don't get a "unique" handle at all, easily changed, I guess.
- unalone 18y agoOn the other hand, if a good fraction of users were to get theirname@facebook.com, then the rest had variations on that theme, suddenly sending email to people would be much easier. I'm happy with my @me, so I guess I won't worry about it too much.
- redrobot5050 18y agoProbably because a regular email system has no way of "blocking" a user the same way I can block people who are not my friends on those social networking sites from contacting me. Also, their "mail system" displays ads. More ads, more chance at revenue.
- asnyder 18y agoIs it just me, or does it seem that @myspace.com will become equivalent to what @aol was. A few years ago if someone told me their e-mail address was @aol I would never look at them the same way again, it just couldn't be helped. I wonder, in what way the @myspace will be different, will it be more negative?
- redrobot5050 18y agoIt will no doubt be worse.
- optimal 18y agoWhat's strange is that I have 27 double-verified email addresses on my webapp that are on the myspace.com domain already since 2007. Myspace employees or what?
- iamdave 18y agoIt's possible.