• BBC, Tuesday, February 25, 2014 11:39 AM

Remarkably, not even Facebook can control how consumers communicate with friends and family. Take the case of its email service, which, after three unspectacular years, is getting the boot. "We're making this change because most people haven't been using their Facebook email address," a Facebook spokesperson tells BBC News. “The service was launched in November 2010 and billed as a way to streamline users' communication by providing a single inbox that could receive Facebook messages, SMS texts, and conventional emails.”
 

 

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