Agora Media Group Innovation Blog

TechCrunch announces in its article Facebook’s Project Titan: A Full Featured Webmail Product that Facebook is developing a full fledged webmail product. Internally -of course- it’s seen as a Gmail killer. For some of the known features of Facebook’s webmail product, click the link above.

What I do find more interesting, is the question if this might be or not be, the Gmail killer?
Facebook has one advantage that Google does not have, the social network. Where Google wants to organize the world’s information, Facebook tries to be the global social hub.
70% of the time spent online is attributed to social networking, communication through email is simply an extension of it.
The question is if people would trade Gmail for Facebook email if that simplifies the activity and centralizes these activities on one platform?

What do you think, would people back away from Gmail to Facebook or are the perceived risks too high and has Google diffused so much that it’s not an option for many?