User blog comment:Dopp/Communicate Easily with Message Wall/@comment-1916935-20111007211723/@comment-10532749-20111007232911

The idea is "making it easier". Do you truly hate that?

There is nothing "social" about that. It works exactly the same as User Talk page. You want to message someone, you go to their User Talk Page (now named Message Wall), you leave a message (but it's faster and easier than before), that person get's notification about it (but it's more informative than before) and if that person wants to read that message, he or she goes to their own User Talk page (now named Message Wall), and if he or she whats to reply, just enter text in appropriate text box and press Send, instead of switching to edit mode, hunting for proper place, making sure indentation is right, previewing to make sure again, and than posting.

See a pattern here? Just like before. Just easier. Nothing facebook-like.