The Facebook Blog

While we were mapping out the navigation of our site, we realized we actually had two places where people could message each other: the My Shares page and the My Messages page. This meant that whenever you wanted to send a friend something privately, you had two completely different ways to do essentially the same thing.

One of the biggest aspects of the new Inbox is that it has consolidated these two features into one. Instead of having messages for text and shared items for media, messages can now have videos, music, and links embedded right... in them. Everything in one place.

There were also a lot of ways in which messages were like email, but not quite as good. We've added a bunch of cool features that make the Inbox more useful. You can now message up to twenty people at once, making private conversations with your friends much easier. Better yet, message conversations are now displayed as threads, so it's easier to read the conversation you're having with your friends.

The "Share" buttons that you see around the web and on Facebook still work, but now you can decide if you want to send a message with whatever you're looking at attached, or just post it to your profile. Go ahead, push that little Share button at the top right of this post and see what I'm talking about. It's pretty cool.



Cahill, designer for Inboxx, wants you to know that the double x's are intentional, but won't tell you why.