It seriously sounds like a great package, everyone gets an email address (if they want one), and people can send messages to you as emails, chats, texts… whatever. And then you can access them via… whatever. None of that “Well, you can contact them here, but you can usually get them better via here” guff (we all have friends like that), it’s a simple one-size-fits-all solution.

I don’t know about you, but most of the emails I receive are from Facebook – my friends message me primarily on Facebook, why? Probably because typing my name is easier than typing my email address (although, my name is my email, so whatever). Chats are largely done via Facebook chat, and the connected crowd can’t stay away from Facebook too long on their iPhones. I also rather ask people if they’re on Facebook, I can attempt to remember a name when I’m at a computer again… just not an email (despite being the easiest way to find someone on it, go figure). Spam? What spam? Well, we’ve already made a whitelist of people and companies that we want to communicate with us. A lot easier to manage than a blacklist (which a lot of people complain about with Facebook Applications).

The only question I have is: how open is it going to be? I guess we’ll have to wait for the beta to start, which you can sign up to here. I’m curious as to how it’s going to roll, the sub-25 year old group (or at least the sub-21 group) already communicate en masse on Facebook, what’s email other than a notification system for Facebook?