Facebook ramps up competition with a new message system

FB is entering the competitive e-mail fray with a new messaging system. What do you think? Exciting or meh?

[quote]Facebook has ramped up competition with AOL, Yahoo, Microsoft and Google with a product to rival their email services.

Facebook Messages aims to tie users more closely to the social networking site at a time when everyone is battling for their attention.

The product will merge texts, online chats, and emails into one central hub.[/quote]

Facebook ramps up competition with a new message system

its pretty sweet, im a beta tester, they offer a PGP encryption for everything too, you just have to send your data to their central server, and then they encrypt it for you, saving you the hassle.

I’m not encryption expert but i think I might see an issue.