G-Mail Killer

Quick Overview

• Facebook Plans to launch own email provider

• More space than G-mail and other email services

• Plans on tracking facebook activity among users to sort mail

Hotmail is King

Facebook creeps you!

• Facebook plans to track who you talk to, who tags you and who you communicate most with in order to sort your mail.

Facebooks privacy

• Facebooks privacy issues could be a factor in its success.

• Since it knows you communicate more with it can sort mail to your preferences.

• If you’re waiting on emails from your dad…good luck?

• The sorting method may be good and bad, might miss out on important emails

Market share

• With over 500 million users, Facebook can capture the email market very easily leaving competition out in the cold

BUT FIRST!•Will knowing that Facebook is watching your every move to sort out your mail affect your decision?

•Does it bother you that Big brother Facebook will always be watching?

What are you waiting for huh?

Discussion Questions

• Will you be making the switch from Otowngurl25@hotmail.com to iCreep@facebook.com?

Will Facebook mail trump existing email services like G-mail and hotmail? (who still uses Yahoo?-Sorry Yahoo users…you’re so 2000 and late).

About your speaker

• Liza Haddad

• @iAmLizziee

• Iamlizziee.tumblr.com

• Hotmail User

• Probably won’t make the switch

• Liza.Haddad@utoronto.ca

• Have never had an embarrassing hotmail email address.