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Could Facebook Replace Your E-Mail Inbox?

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Facebook is inviting the press to a special event Monday, leading href="http://mashable.com/2010/11/11/facebook-announces-special-event-is-it-about-to-overhaul-messages">some to speculate that the company is set to overhaul its Messages product.

The basis for the speculation? The invite prominently displays Facebook’s inbox logo. With some additional features, Facebook may even compete with your current e-mail provider, the theory goes.

Let’s imagine that Facebook’s long-rumored overhaul of its Messages product does transpire, either at this event or in the future: Could it pose a threat to existing e-mail providers? Will Facebook users begin to use Facebook Messages more, and their existing e-mail accounts less?

That’s the topic of my href="http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/social.media/11/11/cashmore.facebook.email/index.html" >CNN column this week.

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