Video: Facebook's New Mail System

You may be spending even more time with Facebook in the near future, as CEO Mark Zuckerberg announces an innovative new messaging product - he says it's not email.

Calling the service a "modern messaging system," Zuckerberg says it will not compete with but complement email clients like Google's Gmail or Yahoo Mail. The system will gather all your real-time conversations in chat, email, text, etc and put them all in one place with the ability to filter.

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The new product offers it's users @facebook.com email addresses and a way to seemlessly communicate across a variety of platforms and channels, with a single conversation history. Instead of having a shoebox full of old letters, you could store the communication of your life on Facebook.

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Select users will start to see the new system as it rolls out in the coming months. Want to find out more? This video breaks it all down.

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