Facebook Email Tutorial

Facebook has progressively enhanced their internal messaging service for users, which allows you (at this point) to send email messages to other Facebook members, either by using their profile name (real name, or display name), or using their email address. Rumors abound that Facebook will revamp its email offerings to the point where they could legitimately compete with the big three players in free webmail services, namely Hotmail, Yahoo Mail, and Gmail. At the moment though, Facebook Mail, Facebook Messaging, or Facebook Email as it is interchangeably called in our tutorials, remains a robust and functional email service, but still relatively basic. In the following Facebook Email tutorials, you will learn about everything the service has to offer.

Basic Facebook Messaging Tutorials

The first tutorials of this series assume no prior knowledge of the Facebook Mail service - you do, however, need to have a Facebook account to use the service (if needed, go get a Facebook profile). You do not need to have a Facebook email address, as you'll see:

• You'll start by learning how to check your Facebook emails. You may not have any messages in your inbox initially, but you'll see how to proceed and check for new emails while anywhere inside the Facebook website (assuming you login to Facebook first).
• Once you become familiar with accessing your email inbox in Facebook, the next common action will be to reply to messages you have received from other Facebook members.
• The next step is to actually create and compose and create an email from Facebook. Once you are reading your Facebook emails, you will then learn how to send an email from Facebook - to another, existing Facebook member (and when you can actually use an email address instead of a person's name, current friend or not) - without replying to anyone, and how to send a Facebook message from within the site itself (in other words, not actually using an external email program).
• Follows a quick discussion about forwarding emails on Facebook, and the limitations inherent to the current implementation.
• Whenever you send email messages from Facebook, a copy of each of these is kept for future reference, as is the case for nearly all email programs and webmail providers - we will show you how to access that archive and view sent messages in Facebook.
• Facebook Mail comes with a rudimentary approach to filters, by allowing to show or hide email messages in your Facebook inbox, based on their Read / Unread status - once that functionality is in place, it is only a matter of time before Facebook implements more advanced filtering mechanisms you have come to love in most other email services and applications.
• Finally, we will show you how to delete an email message in Facebook - and optionally restore it, an option that remains available for only a short time after the deletion.

Advanced Facebook Email Tutorials

And a few more advanced topics on the Facebook Messaging service in its current iteration:

• Facebook Mail actually includes an advanced feature that allows you to send a video message by email, provided that your desktop computer or laptop has a webcam or external camera installed.
• We will also show you how to send a picture as email attachment from Facebook.
• Finally, you will get a quick tip on how to download Facebook email to your computer.

As Facebook Messaging sees more upgrades and new features, this series of email tutorials will be updated accordingly - stay tuned for more.