I do a lot with my email. I sort, prioritize, archive, cross-reference, index, analyse, categorize and more. With FaceBook I don't have access to anything they don't choose to do for me. I can't get the data.

The other day I needed to track down a detail someone had sent me, and it was in a FaceBook message. I had no way to find it. It took literally over 2 hours to find something that I would otherwise find with a grep and a coffee.

Please, please, don't let FaceBook take away my email.

The author contradicts himself.

First he says that "Facebook is killing email. It’s been happening slowly, and most techies disagree, but it’s been happening for a long time."

Then he goes on to admit "More importantly, Facebook isn’t seen as a serious platform. This is less true now than it used to be, but I would still hesitate to ask people to Facebook me in order to talk business – Facebook is for friends and family, email is for work."

"..email is for work."

So....Email will not die anytime soon then is what he is saying.

Can anyone see businesses around the world allowing facebook to peer in and access their company messaging and data? Never.

Email is dead. Long live email.

(I'm the author)

I don't think it's a contradiction at all. Email is used for a lot of things. Facebook has replaced one use of email. Their next move will be to try and replace all the other uses, by making Facebook into a more "serious" platform.

For facebook users, yes it can replace personal communications.

Businesses are more likely to totally block facebook rather than allow their important and legally binding email communications be run through an American social networking company.

But if Facebook integrates an email client into their ui, what will businesses do? No one blocks gmail because it is technically "controlled" by Google.