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Facebook forces all users over to Facebook.com e-mail addresses

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Re: Facebook forces all users over to Facebook.com e-mail addresses

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Post by ken »

Alterlife wrote: post #10

There are three discussions about this on the front page :-/ . I think this is just might be one of those things which would ticks us off as techies... but techies are the minority audience for sites like facebook. Do emails sent to the facebook id go to the standard facebook 'message system'? If so, for a majority of people this will probably make sense... want to message somebody on facebook? You don't have to logi…

> If so, for a majority of people this will probably make sense... want to message somebody on facebook? You don't have to login to facebook! Email them at xyz@facebook.com.

There are easy ways to advertise this fact, without changing anyone's personal info in their Facebook account. It could be as simple as adding the text "You can also send messages to JaneDoe@facebook.com" to JaneDoe's profile page.

Re: Facebook forces all users over to Facebook.com e-mail addresses

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Post by AznHisoka »

Alterlife wrote: post #10

There are three discussions about this on the front page :-/ . I think this is just might be one of those things which would ticks us off as techies... but techies are the minority audience for sites like facebook. Do emails sent to the facebook id go to the standard facebook 'message system'? If so, for a majority of people this will probably make sense... want to message somebody on facebook? You don't have to logi…

In 99% of cases, ppl didn't reveal their private email address. NOW, people can infer your facebook email address from your facebook id... thus making spamming you much more likely. Facebook IDs are public, right?

You can argue people can already mass-message people, but now it's easier.

Re: Facebook forces all users over to Facebook.com e-mail addresses

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Post by sp332 »

rhizome wrote: post #16
sp332 wrote: post #9

Earlier 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.

It's a big deal, and there's no "canonical" link, so it's not surprising that multiple stories got enough upvotes to be on the front page. Also if you had public email addresses, it hid them. That's not cool.

Re: Facebook forces all users over to Facebook.com e-mail addresses

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Post by JSadowski »

I only wish that when Facebook gave away my email when I connected with other sites that they gave away the Facebook email address. As it is, I almost never give permission to sites because most require an email address. I do not wish to share my real email address just to read an article that has shown up on my newsfeed, but would gladly share my @facebook.com email address

Re: Facebook forces all users over to Facebook.com e-mail addresses

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Post by jlogsdon »

ceejayoz wrote: post #25
grecy wrote: post #6

FWIW: I don't have timeline, and it changed mine to @facebook.com

Timeline was rolled out to all accounts. Are you using a plugin to approximate the old look or something?

I've seen several feeds that are still on the old layout. Not sure how that's possible, I don't think a plugin can do it.

Re: Facebook forces all users over to Facebook.com e-mail addresses

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Post by jfoutz »

Amusingly, facebook dropped 2 out of 3 test messages from the other address facebook knows about. Seriously, if anything should be whitelisted, it's that.

I understand that they want to read my mail. They want to know who i interact with.

Why make such a shitty mail client? No POP. no IMAP. Can't view headers. It's not clear how much html is allowed, because they're dropping to many messages.

They're not even pretending it's a serious offering. They're just screwing around with settings.

edit

-- mail lag is 30 minutes now --

and work, and failed.

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