Now, You Can Comment on Facebook Status Updates By Email
Facebook sends a lot of email notifications when users post on friends’ walls or comment on status updates. Now, Facebook is starting to let some users reply by email to post comments on status updates, as opposed to having to switch from email to Facebook to do so. However, the test is only available to a small percentage of users so far.
The feature works for any status thread you’re a part of, not just your own status. You may participate by clicking on an email from Facebook in your inbox, hitting reply, typing out your response that will go to a Craigslist-like long-form email, and then hit send. The tests were also spotted by Download Squad earlier this week.
December 17th, 2009 at 11:25 am
If you like the idea of responding to Facebook alerts from email, NutshellMail.com has offered this feature for a while. I get three email updates a day with all my Facebook and Twitter activity (much better than getting a bunch of one-off alerts all day). Going even farther than this Facebook feature, NutshellMail enables me to update my status, comment on posts, share stories and even write on my friend’s walls through email. Its great and free! http://nutshellmail.com
December 17th, 2009 at 11:46 am
I’ve been want this excellent feature!
December 17th, 2009 at 5:11 pm
Looks like Facebook is taking a page from DISQUS, Posterous, Tumblr and WordPress
December 17th, 2009 at 9:03 pm
It’s definitely convenient that you can now reply to comments via email, but it seems odd that you can do this but you can’t respond to inbox messages (for which you also can receive email notifications) via email. Seems like that would’ve come first, but hopefully it’s in the not too distant future.
December 17th, 2009 at 10:03 pm
Well this is great now we can reply on status via notification email. It’s really great :)
December 21st, 2009 at 1:34 am
I think this is a great feature! I definitively will use it!:-)
December 26th, 2009 at 12:06 am
i really like this
January 29th, 2010 at 4:45 am
thank you for the info, even late it is, I’m now on facebook and bookmarking some great infos and tutos.