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Exactly. The social networks' messaging systems are convenient front ends, but there's no reason that they can't all share data.

• rms 19y ago
  I'm sure open access to facebook messaging will come eventually. There's no rush because facebook is the market leader and most people don't realize there is something wrong with having to log into facebook to reply to messages.
  • Zak 19y ago
    The problem is other people having to have a facebook (or myspace, etc...) account to receive messages from you. Half the people I want to talk to have facebook, almost half have myspace, a few have both, a few have some other social networking service and a few have none. They all have email, and most of them don't consider it outdated. I realize I don't have much in common with the average high-school/college student, but I suspect many of them get annoyed with this multi-network situation too. Inter-network personal messaging is a solved problem - RFC 821 came out in 1982.