Email is broken for a lot of reasons. Managing your contacts, finding lost contacts, finding the email of that person you met last night, party planning, birthday reminders, attachments, sharing photos with groups of people.... There are a lot of things that are extremely difficult to do with email, but are very easy to do on Facebook. So I consider Facebook to be simply a better email client for communicating with your friends and family.
A next-generation email/facebook/social system will have to take things to the next level, and integrated with your phone, and perhaps even replace the conventional cell phone carriers completely.
Email is broken for a lot of reasons. Managing your contacts, finding lost contacts, finding the email of that person you met last night, party planning, birthday reminders, attachments, sharing photos with groups of people.... There are a lot of things that are extremely difficult to do with email, but are very easy to do on Facebook. So I consider Facebook to be simply a better email client for communicating with your friends and family.
A next-generation email/facebook/social system will have to take things to the next level, and integrated with your phone, and perhaps even replace the conventional cell phone carriers completely.