Facebook adds "reply to" from e-mails

Posted by: Jas on Jan 15, 2010
I’m not quite sure when Facebook decided to enable the ability to comment on a person’s status directly from your e-mail notification, but I have to admit I have become something of a fan!

This is a much needed function, and I hope other networks follow suit (my current pet-peeve is with LinkedIn and the way you have to sign-in every time you click on a link from your e-mail -- surely if the notification is being delivered to my address you can include some code to authenticate me without me needing to sign in?!?!).

The only negative thing I’ve encountered with the system is that it doesn’t handle formatting of your text so well, often adding additional line breaks where none should be. I guess this is a small thing when you consider the convenience factor of being able to reply to a post without actually needing to login!