Inbox2 is Not Quite What I Was Looking For

Today, I tried out an all-in-one email service called Inbox2 that promised to put all of my messages from Gmail, Twitter and Facebook in one easy-to-read place. Inbox2 also has a Facebook app that puts all of that information right into your Facebook page (private of course), which is kinda neat. When I first heard about Raindrop, I was really excited by the idea of having a service that organized emails and social networking messages and feeds for me. Unfortunately, after using Inbox2 I'm not so sure how convient that service really is. The Inbox2 Facebook app puts all of my emails, Twitter DMs and Facebook notifications for me in different folders. This also means that everytime I get an email or an @reply I get a Facebook notification telling me about it. Getting all of these as notifications is a little overwhelming and not really what I wanted.


Although I'm still excited to see how Raindrop will turn out, I'm not so sure having all of my social networking activities and communications feeding into one outlet is right for me. In keeping with the theme of yesterday's post, I've realized that I rather like keeping things separate. I think a big reason why I like checking and responding to email, Twitter and Facebook separately is because my interactions are very different for each one. If I put them all together I feel like I am loosing what makes each service unique. I also think email is just a completely different thing from social networking. When I was playing around with Inbox2, it just didn't make sense to have all of my website conformation and school related emails mixed in with Twitter and Facebook chitchat. So any opinions on these types of services? Do you think the future of the internet is to have everything we want to connect to in one place? Or will you continue to use services like email and Twitter separately?