Welcome to your Social Inbox! -Facebook.

Today, our world is so technology driven with email, social media, iPhone, iPads, and the list goes on and on; it's hard to keep up with everything. Now, imagine a world where your text messages, personal email and Facebook chat/messages are all combined into one. This was thought impossible just a year ago, but Facebook has done it. They have made your life more convenient by introducing: the Social Inbox.

Finally a place where all of your conversations are organized in one place! Now instead of deciding whether to email, text or Facebook chat your friend, you can let them decide how they want to receive your message. It's absolutely brilliant! How is this possible you may ask?

1. Seamless Messaging. 

Like I said, your social inbox is a combination of email, text and chat all in real time. All you do is simply type in their name, send them your message and they receive it in whatever way is convenient for them. If they are on their phone, they can receive it via SMS. If they are on their Facebook, they will receive it in Messages. Now, you are probably wondering how SMS can be sent to your social inbox, trust me, I was curious too! On Facebook, you simply turn on the "Text Messaging" feature and you will be able to send the messages to your phone and/or receive them on your phone. The social inbox will also keep track of your conversation even if its all through SMS.

Here is an example from Facebook: 

Sending messages from your phone 

To send a new message to a friend via a mobile text, just text the following to 32665 (FBOOK): 

msg john smith what’s up? 

This would send the message "what's up?" to your friend John Smith. 

Pretty cool huh!

2. @facebook.com

Facebook is creating free email accounts for all members, by using their username@facebook.com. This is an optional feature, but by optimizing it, you will be able to email anyone in facebook or in your Gmail address book. However, it will not look like a typical email. This new social inbox does not have subject lines, cc or bcc and you simply send the message by hitting enter. It also filters your messages by the main inbox and "Other" file placing your conversations with those on Facebook into the main inbox and your bills, bank statements and converstations with those not on Facebook into "Other" file. If you want to place someone from the "Other" folder into the main inbox, you simply drag the message over and from then on all conversations will show up in the main inbox.

This has just started rolling out to Facebook users and will do so over the next 4-6 months until everyon has these features. If you want to learn more, check out the Facebook New Messages- Help Center, an open forum that will answer any other questions you may have!