Facebook is coming up with yet another feature. This time it is Email, yes Email service by Facebook which will give you [email protected]. An announcement on it was made on Nov. 15th, 2010. It is named as Project Titan and there was a news earlier this year in February that Facebook is coming up with email service and now after 9 months it seems that FB’s email service is just there at your Facebook account.
There are some issues to address:
I haven’t heard of it. Where is this service?
How to access this service?
What are the features?
Should I go and use this service?
Well, I too have read about it yesterday that Email Service is launched and I was wondering that when the announcements were made 2 weeks back..then why I haven’t heard it earlier (it seems that like how Google promotes its product is by Friends telling Friends and no ads for new services and features, similarly Facebook is doing). Yesterday, I was browsing and find some text that grabbed my attention. They were something like Facebook Email. As I had read it about earlier this year in February, I was able to connect that it is about Facebook’s Email Service and then started to know more about it and have my own email account.
I found that only little information was available and couldn’t find a link to access Facebook Email page (for some time). After browsing through web for sometime I was able to figure out the link on Facebook for Facebook Messages aka Email (will share it after sometime 🙂 ).
Now when I accessed this page (yes, I will share the link soon) I found that at this moment email can be registered by having an invitation. From this page you can request for an invitation and invitation from Facebook will come up soon (I am still waiting for my Invitation to arrive). Other wise you can wait till the time everyone is invited gradually. Once you get an invitation you can create an email like [email protected], that sounds interesting. After this, you get few invitations to send to your friends as well.
After I got to know about this, I was thinking that I need to grab my username which I generally use and wanted to grab it soon before anyone does and for this I have to wait till I get an invitation. But then I found some good news. My current username will be my email i.e. [email protected] and I already have my username. But wait, I just said My Current Username. Yes, I meant my current username. Well, most people or I would say Facebook users doesn’t know that they can create username.
You can recall it by following, try to remember when you browse your friends, you must have seen their profile URLs they are of kind http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=xxxxxxx but some users have it like http://www.facebook.com/somename. Now, this somename is the username and you too can have it for free and that too easily (subject to availability). Also, if you doesn’t have username at Facebook, you use Email Address to login but after having a Username you can simply login by using your Username.
How to create your username is explained below.
So, if you don’t have an invitation yet and don’t have a username either then you can create your username now and have an email like [email protected]
Creating Username
Username can be easily created on Facebook. Go to http://facebook.com/username and you will find an option to create a Username. (Check and choose your Username wisely as you might not be able to change it again or it is once at max.).
After creating username you can now easily remember your Faebook Profile URL, it will be http://facebook.com/yourusername now.
If you want to change your username if it is possible, just go to Account Settings under Account drop down on Top-Right of page. There you will see Username and a link to Change beside it. Click on Change to change your username.
I will write more and update this soon when I get more information on this.. 🙂