Facebook’s Rumor Of Its Own E-Mail Services Threatens All Including Gmail, Yahoo and Windows Live Mail

Any change that Facebook makes today affects the 500 million members of its social-networking website tomorrow. Hence, in this Google-Facebook rivalry, the rumor that Facebook is looking at its option to offer an e-mail serveice to its users is huge news. As, if it happens, it will automatically make Facebook the biggest e-mail service provider on the planet, because of its already huge number users.

More importantly, as we know that each Yahoo, Google and Microsoft are already hustling their way  to make their e-mail services more and more about people's social connections, in order to get more ‘active users.’ This puts Facebook to a tremendous advantage because it already has such a vast audience in this regard.

Facebook has invited all the media, on Monday, to its San Francisco’s head office. As entire tech blogs started shooting the news, on Friday, with assumption that Facebook is announcing its own web-mail service. Facebook representation has neither denied or nor confirmed these rumors, which perhaps leaves us with more uncertainty and confusion.

According to the rough calculation, if Facebook provides this e-mail service it would allow more than 500 million users to use its services, even including others outside the social network. Hence, Facebook’s 500 Million users would overpower the 361 million users of Windows Live Hotmail, Yahoo Mail's 273 million users and 193 million users of Gmail.