Facebook inbox

Facebook is slowly making their messages and inbox into more of an email type interface. In 2009, Facebook added the "report as spam" and "mark as read" options". Now at the end of 2010 Facebook is adding another email feature to their inbox. Facebook, with the help of investor Mircrosoft, integrated an "attachment" feature into its message system. Now Facebook users can email documents Excel, Word, PowerPoint, etc.) through the Facebook message system. When you receive an attachment you get to option to view the document contents. The first option is you can download and save it onto your system. This option requires you to have some form of Microsoft Office on your computer. However the second option to view the document is to open the document up in a web app on Microsoft's office live site. This allows the user to view the document in a new browser window without the need of having Microsoft office applications on your computer. This is a strategic alliance between Facebook and Microsoft going against Google (gmail). They are eliminating the need for computer users to check their Facebook and their email when they can just check their Facebook. I have not personally tried the attachment feature on Facebook, but I hear good things about it.