How to Send an Email to Facebook From Gmail

One of the challenges of running a small business is establishing solid communication lines. Gmail can be a good client to use for email as it is easily accessible from any computer with Internet access as well as from mobile devices. At some point you may need to send an email to a client or contact who uses a Facebook email address. You can send an email to this address just as you would a normal email address.

Step 1

Determine the contact's Facebook address. You can check if the contact has sent you the address to use. Otherwise, you can navigate to the user's Facebook timeline and locate their public username at the end of their URL. For example, for the URL "http://facebook.com/user" the public username would be "user." This public username is the first part of the Facebook email address, so the email address would be "user@facebook.com."

Step 2

Click on the "Compose" button at the top of the left sidebar in your Gmail inbox to compose a new email.

Step 3

Type the Facebook email address in the "To" field.

Step 4

Type the email's subject in the subject line as usual and type your email message in the main message text field.

Step 5

Click the "Send" button below to send the message to the Facebook address. The message will arrive in your contact's Facebook "Messages" box.

How to Send Bulk Mail Using Gmail

If you need to send a bulk email message to many of your customers, employees, or business acquaintances at one time, there is a way to do it using Gmail. By using Gmail to send a bulk email message, you can send the message using an address that is familiar to those who might be receiving it, which increases the chances of your email being opened, and helps recipients feel more confident that the message is not spam.

Step 1

Sign in to your Gmail account at gmail.com.

Step 2

Click the "Compose" button to create a new email message.

Step 3

Click the "Add BCC" link under the "To" box, and instead of entering addresses into the "To" field like you normally would for an email message, enter them into the "To BCC" field instead. This protects the email recipients you're sending the message to by making sure they can't see each other's email addresses.

Step 4

Enter the content of your message into the large body field.

Step 5

Click the "SEND" button to send your email message.