Facebook Announces "Seamless Messaging"

Facebook announced a revamping of its messaging system calling it "Seamless Messaging". The system apparently integrates chats, SMS messages, and e-mail. They are also offering @facebook.com email addresses. The selling point of this new offering is that it allows us to choose how we receive our messages regardless of how they are sent. The other selling point is "Conversation History" which according to Mark Z. will allow us to have a transcript of our lives. Ahem... well, I dunno. I sort of think we are already doing that with our mobile devices. Basically, everything is being routed directly to our "love 'em or hate 'em" smart phones. Email, SMS texts, and IMs, all right there, ensconced in our pockets and purses. So, after watching the video announcement delivered by Facebook I wondered, what had they really just announced? The answer is quite simple... another way to aggregate our personal information and leverage it to make money. We build the social graph and they pull in the bucks. This is an interesting initiative by the company, but I really don't see it as anything revolutionary. And about that "Conversational History" that they are selling to us, which will allow us to "track relationships back to the beginning", I say there are a few people and events in my life that I really don't care to reminisce about. I really wouldn't want them as part of my permanent digital foot print. Would you?