Facebook’s social inbox stores your shares

Tech Crunch reported that Facebook is unveiling what CEO Mark Zuckerberg is calling a “modern messaging system”. If you look at what Facebook says are the keys to a successful modern messaging system, it looks a lot like what we crave from cloud storage in general.

• seamless:  I want it to work no matter what platform or application I use.
• informal: Just make it easy to use.
• immediate: I want the information, and I want it now.
• personal: Make it cater to my needs…I don’t care about the masses.
• simple: I don’t want to invest in IT know-how to have it work for me.
• minimal:  I want little setup, little maintenance, little learning curve.
• short: I want to be up and running in a matter of minutes.

……. Maybe that’s because this is cloud storage. Maybe not in how the industry defines cloud storage, but follow me on this one….Facebook is a cloud service provider. One that provides a communications platform. A communications platform wrapped up in messages, videos, photos.  And what does a solid communications platform require: storage.

500 Million users and growing. Add this social inbox capability to the platform, and you can expect the storage requirements for Facebook servers to explode, assuming we all jump on board here like sheep and “follow” the Facebook vision, or should I say “like” the vision.

Recently, Data Center Knowledge released their list of who has the most servers?  Facebook was on the list at roughly 60,000.  Maybe the next time they run this report, we’ll see them in the 70,000 to 80,000 range.

Bring on this social inbox…I would use it…wouldn’t you?