Facebook changes everyone's listed emails to 'Facebook.com'

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/la-fi-tn-facebook-changes-emails-20120625,0,5342947.story

by kgermino • 14 years ago

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jquery• 14 years ago

This is a major breach of trust.

drivingmenuts• 14 years ago

This is a major breach of trust that no one has any right to be surprised by.

Seriously, why is everyone so surprised every time this happens? Are we collectively saying "There's no way they'll every make everyone agree to <insert breach here>"?

vladd• 14 years ago

Because most people fail to learn from the past.

http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/03/07/234204/facebook-foun...

clobber• 14 years ago

For users of facebook, it's been one breach of trust after another.

zem• 14 years ago

it would be if anyone still trusted facebook. seriously, i don't think even the most fanboyish teenagers trust facebook; they just use it because it's useful and all their friends are there.

eridius6• 14 years ago

This is rather shocking. It's bad enough that Facebook periodically changes privacy settings, but this time they're changing the actual personal information listed in your profile. There's really only one reason I still have a Facebook account, and it's so old friends can find my current contact information if they need it. I really wish a viable competitor would appear and provide me an alternate option.

guth• 14 years ago

There is a competitor... The problem is, it's not enough to provide "you" the option. Many people have to agree to accept it together...

eridius6• 14 years ago

There is no viable competitor. Google+ is such a clusterfuck, especially with how they handled Google Apps emails.

baddox5• 14 years ago

I understand your sentiment, but at least the @facebook email address sends incoming messages to your Facebook notification center. The switch shouldn't have been automatic, but it is a fairly slick and useful feature.

eridius6• 14 years ago

If by "useful feature" you mean "absolute abomination". If someone tries to send me an email and it goes to my notification center, I will never see it. That completely destroys the entire point of me listing my email on my profile.

JumpCrisscross• 14 years ago

I just went into my "Other" messages on Facebook and found a bunch of rubbish I was never notified of.

jfoutz• 14 years ago

It's spam prevention. Since you can't actually receive email from an external source without screwing around with privacy settings, most mail will just bounce. Since there's no IMAP or even POP suport, the mail that does get through will be left unread.

outside1234• 14 years ago

this is about spam protection like integrating IE into Windows was about making the install easier. Seriously, this is about getting marketshare for a failing product.

learc83• 14 years ago

I don't think it's very effective spam prevention. gmail.com and yahoo.com alone account for a large percentage of email addresses. Just add a few more to the list of domains to try, and there is a high probability you'll get something through.

kgermino• 14 years ago

jfoutz appears to be joking.

InclinedPlane• 14 years ago

It's spam prevention... from all of my friends who are the only people who should be able to see my email on facebook? What sort of signal is facebook sending about their service then?

gte910h• 14 years ago

Mine didn't get changed?

Perhaps this is just for people without an email?

mike-cardwell• 14 years ago

I had a hidden email. They added an unhidden facebook.com email address for me. I've just gone and hid it.

res0nat0r• 14 years ago

Your facebook.com email address was exposed with the same permissions as your profile. My personal email is still visible to my friends only, and my facebook.com address is exposed to only me when I check just now.

Also anyone who can see your profile knows your facebook.com address already, as it is the same as the URL to your profile.

jmagar• 14 years ago

Your hiding it doesn't help though... your Facebook email address is <<username>>@facebook.com

I don't see anyway to keep that secret.

tubbo• 14 years ago

This is NOT shocking enough to be posted every fucking time you see a newspaper write about it.

instakill• 14 years ago

It seems that Facebook as a company has an OCD to keep changing shit. If not interfaces then API methods.

biafra• 14 years ago

Facebook has notifications for almost anything that happens on their site which might be interesting for me to know about.

Why on earth do they not notify me about emails to my @facebook.com address?

Facebook changes everyone's listed emails to 'Facebook.com'

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