Blind dates. They have now more or less lost meaning. If you were set up by your friends, the first thing you would do is go facebook the person you were being set up. Facebook is making a lot of things obsolete or at least changing things the way we know them.

Anyways, here’s how my day begins :
1. Wake-Up
2. Get Ready
3. Leave House
4. Sit in train
5. Check Facebook
6. Check G-mail

But looks like soon enough the last ‘task’ is going to become unnecessary. Why, you wonder? Facebook is rolling out with a new feature called Facebook e-mail.

But Facebook e-mail is not exactly e-mail. You will have your @facebook.com address, but there will be no subject line and no cc/bcc. It’s a lot like like the current Messages feature (which we all use for secretive stuff). Actually it’s Messages 2.0. It’s a lot like chat, less like e-mail.

Basically it will be a new form of seamless communication. You won’t have to switch between SMS, IM, e-mail or Messages - this will be your one stop shop. Type your message and hit Enter. Literally.

Right now, within G-mail, e-mails are threaded around conversations (with the help of your subject line). Facebook, like everything else about it, is going the social way and will have conversations based on people. Many a times I have two or three separate but simulataneous conversations going on with the same people, so I am not really cool with this idea. But lets see how it works out.

The new Messages will have two ‘folders’ - Inbox and Others. So messages by your friends and friends of friends will go into the inbox, while messages from others (people who are not in your facebook) will go into others. Plain and simple.
Ofcourse you can change settings to get messages in your ‘inbox’ exclusively from friends.

Facebook is rolling out the new messages feature in phases. So right now you will have to request facebook for an invite. Do that, go to this page and click on the ‘Request An Invite’ button down below.