On the positive side, they'll be getting no data to mine since they already know what I do there.
Facebook forces all users over to Facebook.com e-mail addresses
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#14Does it give you a friendly email address or is it just random numbers (or your fb id)? For instance, if your facebook username is "AznHisoka" do they display aznhisoka@facebook.com ?
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#15Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.
(obviously Myspace did not read mail ;-))
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In response to http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=patrickaljord below, Myspace introduced email service in mid-2009. Perhaps the above should read, ``(obviously Myspace did not read mail back then when it mattered ;-))''
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#17Obligatory jwz quote: ``Zawinski's law of software envelopment'' Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can. (obviously Myspace did not read mail ;-)) [EDIT] In response to http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=patrickaljord below, Myspace introduced email service in mid-2009. Perhaps the above should read, ``(obviously Myspace did not r…
Except that it can http://www.myspace.com/guide/mail
Re: Facebook forces all users over to Facebook.com e-mail addresses
#18Does it give you a friendly email address or is it just random numbers (or your fb id)? For instance, if your facebook username is "AznHisoka" do they display aznhisoka@facebook.com ?
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can't avoid this change, so yes it's forced.
It didn't replace my addresses and there are two other stories on the front page about this, so it looks rather linkbaity.
I think it's easy to understate the importance of this, personally, and don't mind the multiple stories. I'm extremely annoyed at this - I don't want this email address, that I do not control, be published as some kind of contact point for me.
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#20Does it give you a friendly email address or is it just random numbers (or your fb id)? For instance, if your facebook username is "AznHisoka" do they display aznhisoka@facebook.com ?