Facebook notifications good example of non-bacn Oct01 '08

When I talked about livening up your email notifications, I forgot to mention that Facebook does this absolutely right.

When you receive an email notification from Facebook, usually it will contain the complete message within the email body. From there you have the option to view the message on the Facebook site itself, reply through Facebook, etc.

The point is, I don't have to open Facebook, log in, etc, just to view the notification message that I already have open in my email program! (This becomes increasingly annoying on mobile devices.)

This is called "making good use of email notifications." Don't point me to another web site just to read the message. Provide me the message in the email itself.

Not only does this save steps, it allows you to treat the email message like any other - you can organize them within your inbox, forward, archive, search, etc. I like having another copy of messages sent through Facebook in my regular email inbox. If anything it's a "backup archive" in case Facebook goes under, or something.

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