Get your Facebook Email ID ID@facebook.com

You could have your very own facebook.com email address waiting for
you. Login to Facebook and see if you do.
Facebook's enhanced messaging system promised SMS and Internet email
ability in addition to the already familiar internal Facebook-only
messaging. Your new @facebook.com address is your facebook page name
@facebook.com. For example, mypage is facebook.com/situnrocks and my
Facebook email address is situnrocks@facebook.com. It works just like
regular Facebook messaging but now you can email people on the
Internet and they can reply to your real facebook.com address.
As Mark Zuckerberg noted in his original announcement, the Facebook
enhancement is no replacement for real email because it lacks advanced
features such as forwarding, reply all, CC and BCC. It's still
prettycool even with those limitations. But, if you're in Facebook and
you want to send a short message to someone, you don't have to click
away to another page or to another application; you simply use
Facebook's built-in system.
I expect the Facebook gang to enhance the mail program to separate
internal and external messages, to use folders or labels, to forward,
to CC and much more. I foresee Facebook attempting to create a unified
messaging system to combat Google's Google+, Gmail, Google Docs and
other related properties.
One of the innovations that Facebook proposed is the "Social Inbox."
This separates mail from your friends into one folder and everything
else into another. Thisway your social mail has a different priority
than the latest [pharma product name banned] ad. This is a rule-based
message separation and is really nothing new. Email programs have done
this for some time. The innovative part of the Social Inbox is that
it's done automatically–or so I gather.
The old adage, "Competition promotes good business," is still true
today. When Facebook was the only game in town, innovation was slower
and features were less spectacular. Now that Google has stepped up its
game, Facebook will begin thebrainstorm process again and you, the
user, will reap the rewards of it all on both sites.
Until those innovations kick in, you'll have to settle for your new
Internet-capable Facebook email address.
So, if you're curious, login to facebook, click on Messages, compose a
new message, address it to your external (non-Facebook) email address
and see if it works. You can check your external mail for the message
and snag your Facebook mail address while you're at it. If it doesn't
work, don't worry, the roll-out takes time. You'll have one very soon.
Are you excited about having your own @facebook.com address ?