An invite for a new @facebook.com email address is on sale for charity via eBay, and has already raised more than £300. Posted by the news site allfacebook.com, the auction has attracted nearly 40 bidders with five hours to go.
The proceeds from the sale will go to the Susan G Komen for the Cure charity, which says it aims “to save lives and end breast cancer forever by empowering people, ensuring quality care for all and energizing science to find the cures”.
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg showcased the ‘next generation messaging system’, which includes allowing users to have an @facebook.com email address, at an event in San Francisco on Monday. He said: “Email is too slow, email is too formal. There is too much friction, like the filling in the subject line when people send an email.”
Zuckerberg stressed that the site’s new messaging system, which will combine Facebook’s instant messaging system, SMS, Facebook messages and email in one place, would allow people to reply seamlessly across multiple devices to different types of messages
The new messaging system is only live to those with an invite at this stage, and Zuckerberg said that it will be rolled out slowly across the next several months. The eBay auction is the first to offer one for sale.
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