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 * __ Gmail Killer __**

The king of social networking is at it again and this time Facebook has more than one prey in mind. Developing an email service that will prioritize each email relative to your ‘Facebook friend’ activity, the top secret //Project Titan// is expected to trump G-mail, Yahoo mail and even Hotmail. Facebook’s email service differs from G-mail and Hotmail simply because it can track your Facebook activity and associate it to which emails and senders are more important to you. Many users have scrutinized Facebook for its privacy policies but within this mail service, the internet titan offers its users with a little more organization. No more will you have to sift through pages of the annoying ‘Facebook notification emails’ or emails from those you haven’t spoken to in years, this service allows Facebook to organize your emails based on your interactivity with friends, fan pages, number of photo’s tagged and by whom etc. With over 500 million ‘friends’, Facebook has the opportunity to tap into and takeover the email market, knocking the leaders in e-mail off their pedestal. Hotmail, G-mail and Yahoo mail may have no chance in surviving if Facebook could get //Project Titan// off the ground with its innovative email prioritization. Our obsession with communication reigns supreme here where **big brother**, in this case Facebook, tracks our every move and delivers to us //what// we want from //who// we expect it from.

Article Analysed: @http://gizmodo.com/5688464/why-facebook-mail-can-kill-gmail-and-everyone-else @http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/11/facebook-gmail-titan/ Word count: 235

Discussion Questions:

Do you think Facebook mail will trump other email providers in the long run?

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