Dear Facebook, do not want your email
Facebook,
When I signed up to you’re once genuinely interesting and good service I was required to have an email address. So I think it’s safe to say that you know I have an email account my own. Kindly explain to me why the dogs I would want to complicate my increasingly muddy online communications by adding an @facebook.com email address into this?
No enough it enough. Your services were once useful and fun but now you appear to be attempting to become the messenger of all my social communications – photo sharing, instant messaging now email. I would not entrust such things to a proprietary third party service who’s privacy intentions are, to say the least, shady.
While Google+, strictly speaking, actually is offering a similar service it’s the attitudes have always been better and it’s critical services, like email and instant messaging, work on open common standards that don’t lock my data away.
Thank you for being better than MySpace several years ago and tak you for bringing social networking into the mainstream but the time is coming for us to part ways. I openly admit I shall remain on facebook while there are people I want to communicate with who, annoyingly, use it as their main messaging platform but more and more people are drifting to alternative services that will return things, for a while at least, to a less complicated more enjoyable social space.
Regards,
Me.