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sourpuss
what is this company? and why are they called AWOL?
MrDog
You mean like how Google have done with Gmail?
I'm suprised that AOL are still going. I remember when Docomo had a contract with them for long e-mails, when Docomo phones could only send/receive upto 500 words. It was free at first then it just died.
gogogo
Facebook launches free email tomorrow, 500 million active users... AOL and google have already lost.
mikehuntez
Wow after reading this article I logged into my iChat for the first time in many months or years and actually talked to a technically challenged friend of mine in the States who still uses AOL. He's the only person I know that hasn't switched to Skype but he insisted many people still use AOL.
sourpuss
gogogo, right. lol
Hotmail is far ahead of anyone else, still. and facebook's 500 million include loads of people with more than one account...ahem...like me (3) and my cousin(5). and with Facebook's track record of dealing with issues of privacy, i think I'll be keeping my gmail and hotmail and even yahoo accounts active.
gogogo
sourpuss: google "project titan"... facebook free email, it launches this week, hotmail and yahoo have 320million accounts combined, they are most certainly not all used, 500 million on facebook log in daily... how many junk email address' do you have?
cactusJack
AOL = corpse.
aksksks
AOL? LOL.
whiskeysour
AOL is the dinosaur of emails. Sorry !!! Give it up AOL. I really don't want to hear, " You got mail ! " not cool anymore sorry !!!!
HermioneGranger
People still use AOL? There is still an AOL?! I am completely shocked!
saborichan
I think the posters here have it right... You won't win back the google crowd, me included.
Elbuda Mexicano
AOL made a movie with Tom Hanks, You got mail, right? After those long infomarcial type movies by Tom, I really got sick of those movies and of Tom Hanks.
sourpuss
gogogo, so a messaging service is going to kill email?
gogogo
sourpuss; read todays news, facebook announced free email like I said yesterday. it is email not a message service.
sourpuss
gogogo, the big Z himself has said it's a messaging service. sorry. email secondary as facebook revamps messaging. that's your news. check below.
gogogo
sourpuss: marketing... you are going to get a xxx@facebook . com email address... if that isn't email I dont know what is.
Zenny11
And I think those facebook email addresses will soon get blocked on most servers as are hotmail, gmail, etc.
gogogo
Zenny: yep gmail recently blocked facebook from importing contacts for this very reason
sourpuss
gogogo, right. Zuckerberg calls it messaging, but you call it email. he must be wrong and you must be right. after all, you hold more authority than the guy who runs facebook. lol