Facebook & Gmail - the partnership that should be, but isn’t.

A large number of College graduates are faced with a common problem right now: which email service should I switch to? Most universities that I know of, don’t allow students to use their .edu account forever. Instead, they ask you to set up a forwarding address within a few months of graduating. This makes sense for them in terms of storage, and it makes sense for the student in terms of no longer appearing to be a college student. Doesn’t this present a great opportunity for an email provider? And since these students are also on Facebook, wouldn’t it make sense to publicize your email solution on Facebook?

From the other side, Facebook has walls and you can leave messages, but having an embedded chat application on the site similar to what gmail offers could give Facebook something that other SNs lack - a live social interaction.

To me it seems obvious for an email provider to work with a compnay that has a large number of users in need of an email solution, but maybe I’m missing something, because I certainly haven’t seen any Gmail or other solicitations when I log in to Facebook.