I am loving Facebook these days. Not because of stupid applications, not because of wall posts, not because I like to get poked all day :P - but because of the power of direct messages.
Facebook is a great place to drop a line to a friend in a way that is so very different from email. When a person is in their Facebook account, they are ready and waiting to have a conversation, check up on friends and browse new social happenings. However, when a person is in their email, they are being bombarded with spam, work and other various non-wanted interruptions.
However, as a member of hundreds of Facebook groups I get a lot of group messages that come into my direct messages mailbox, which are not actually direct, as they are sent to me as well as everyone else in the group. I must admit, I have been deleting a lot of them lately before opening them. I have found that group administrators are using their access to groups members as a way to send spam, not-so-important and not so direct messages. This is unfortunate, because when I do sometimes open the occasional group message I am glad I did. Maybe I should be giving group messages more of a chance.
