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 still seen some people who don't have Timeline yet. It is rare though.
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#32FWIW: 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?
Are you sure? I still don't have it (thankfully). I'm probably on the tail end of their rollout though. Might help that I hardly ever use Facebook anymore.
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#33Does 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 ?
If you don't have a username then currently its your FB id although, if you do have a FB username then the @facebook.com email is the same.
I didn't set a Facebook username, and Facebook force-assigned me one for this email address.
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#36There 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…
I dunno, the first I heard it from was from non techies. As a techie, I don't really care as I don't keep the account connected to a primary email nor do i use it in my main browser...but to a non-techie, this all but makes it sound like that Facebook is aggressively entering their personal domain...even though it's highly naive to think that what goes on in FB stays on FB, this should be alarming to those who were deluded
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#37I 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
I'm one of a handful of people who don't have a Facebook account but I'll +1 this comment.
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#38There 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.
If you compose an email to multiple @facebook.com addresses, I'm sure Facebook will limit the actual number of recipients in the same way that they do when you send messages through the Facebook message interface, so it's really no different.
With 3rd party spam, the advantage Facebook has here is Zuck's "social graph" -- they can pretty easily tell what the relationship of the sender is in relation to the recipient (and thus how relevant the message is, what the sender's reputation is, etc). It'd be interesting to see how these connections are made when the sender's email address is not associated with a Facebook account, though.
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#39FWIW: 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?
Timeline was rolled out to all accounts only as an option, I believe.
I'm still on the "old" profile, as are many (if not most) of my friends. Yet to see a hard push to switch over, though I'm sure it'll come any day now.
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#40It seems like they didn't change your previous preferences but rather added a new one and changed how they interpret preferences as to what is displayed.
If you look at your list of e-mail addresses, it will let you choose who to share it with if it should be shown on timeline. Previously I had a real e-mail address that was being shared with friends and another real address that was for 'only me'. When I looked at my preferences today, I saw that those settings remained intact and that it added a third @facebook.com address that was being shared with only me.
I think the second field might be brand new. It says either "Shown on timeline" or "Hidden on timeline" and when I looked today it showed both of the email addresses that I had previously set up as hidden and the new facebook.com one as shown. If they would have just marked the e-mail address that I had set up to be shared with friends as "shown" and added the @facebook.com address as "shown", I (and suspect many others) would be happy and it would still allow them to emphasize that people can use @facebook.com e-mail addresses. (Some people might not like this for spam reasons, but I think this is would be far less evil than what they did.)
Also, since they don't share e-mail addresses via the social graph or have other ways of viewing data, what is the point of differentiating 'show on timeline' with specifying who you share it with? None of the other fields (phone number, IM screen name, address etc.) include this "show on timeline field" but rather set visibility based on the sharing settings. It seems like the "show on timeline" field is completely unnecessary and was only added to get the effect that we're all talking about. (So this was clearly evilness rather than incompetence; for some preference system changes one could argue that it was necessary to 'break' old preferences since the new ones were so different, but that isn't the case here.)