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SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA (BNO NEWS) — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Monday unveiled the new modern messaging system of the popular social networking site.

Zuckerberg said that the new system was planned as an informal alternative to the email. He recalled talking to high school students recently and knowing about the desire for a less formal way of communicating instead of the traditional email.

“This is not an email killer. This is a messaging experience that includes email as one part of it,” Zuckerberg said. “It’s all about making communication simpler. This is the way that the future should work.”

The founder of Facebook added that the keys for a modern messaging system are seamless, informal, immediate, personal, simple, minimal and short. In order to achieve that, Facebook will provide seamless messaging, conversation history and a social inbox.

The new Facebook messaging will allow users to communicate no matter what format used: email, chat, SMS. The new system also keeps all messaging in a single social inbox and all the conversation history is kept too.

The system will merge four main things: SMS, IM, email and Facebook messages. Any user can also get facebook.com email address if desired. Zuckerberg added that 15 engineers worked in the project, the most ever worked on a single Facebook project.

In addition, the new messaging system will work on their mobile applications as well. An updated iPhone application is going to be launched shortly.