My first thought when I saw Fmail, a recent Facebook app was why not wait until Google buys Facebook and then we can get the real Gmail app integrated. And what about hotmail? Are we going to see FotMail or FaceMail pop up soon – especially with the talks between Microsoft and Facebook? (j/k)

I decided to add the Fmail app and it actually is really clean and quite functional if you don’t mind the iframe and a small window at that. Not only that but the biggest flaw of all is the inability for the auto-complete of the email address in the “To:” section when composing new mail.

The interesting this about so many of the applications that are flying onto Facebook is that I wonder if the developers actually sit back and figure out if their app will actually make sense to have it on the social platform. I use Facebook every day and I have several applications that I use and many, many that I have tried and discarded. The best apps on Facebooks are the ones that easily fit into the Social Activity Stream and that can tap into the Facebook social graph. If the app doesn’t, well it just doesn’t make much sense to put in to the game.

This particular app to me looks more like an experiment, something the developers can pat themselves on the back with and say “we did it guys.” Nonetheless, and not to be too harsh on the Fmail dev team, this is a good attempt at integrating Gmail into the Facebook social network.