Social network messaging is annoying because when someone sends you a message, the site sends you an email saying "someone sent you a message" and instead of including a copy of the message in the email, they want you to then login to their site (generating more page/ad views for them) so you can read the message.

At some point I'm going to writeup a spec for a network-messaging-interception program which will grab these emails in real time (maybe using procmail etc), login for me, get the body of the message, and replace the notification message with the actual message. A fancy version could have a coded Reply-to which would allow me to "reply" just using my email client, but then having the special Reply-to recipient program parse the email and post it into the social networking site. ¶2:47 PM; digg