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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 AznHisoka »

technel wrote: post #38
AznHisoka wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

yep, that's what I was getting into. It seems FB wants users to use their facebook email as their regular email address. So it would make sense if they get emails from newsletters, online bills, strangers, anyone...

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

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Post by crusso »

envex wrote: post #42
crusso wrote: post #28

Yay... I'm always looking for more reasons to NOT use Facebook for any communication whatsoever. Thank you, Facebook!

Doesn't seem like you're looking too hard -- you know, still having a facebook account and all. If you hate it that much, delete the account :P

Well, yeah. I'm mostly just jabbing at them in frustration at how much other people buy into centering their lives around FB... but I'm not a total luddite. :) Every once-in-a-while, someone from high school wants to get in touch with me and FB is a decent enough honey pot.

That said, I am enough of a luddite to not see the need to have a Twitter account.

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

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Post by ThePherocity »

zerohp wrote: post #7

I don't think its overstating the situation to say: Facebook changes profiles without permission or notification.

True, but there is a fine line. You cannot reasonably move a product forward if a few select people refuse to play along. Every product I release, I'm met with disdain from users that don't want to change, and how it was perfect the way it was. And the next release with a different change, it's the same users complaining how the version that they're using now is perfect, why would I change things?

People love to complain, and people don't like change.

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

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Post by SquareWheel »

JSadowski wrote: post #27

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

Whenever I come across an interesting "___ read an article" post, I just Google the title of the article.

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

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Post by forgotAgain »

ThePherocity wrote: post #55
zerohp wrote: post #7

I don't think its overstating the situation to say: Facebook changes profiles without permission or notification.

True, but there is a fine line. You cannot reasonably move a product forward if a few select people refuse to play along. Every product I release, I'm met with disdain from users that don't want to change, and how it was perfect the way it was. And the next release with a different change, it's the same users complaining how the version that they're using now is perfect, why would I change things? People love to comp…

There is no fine line here. Facebook changed a personal attribute of their users. This particular action is not justifiable under any circumstances I can see.

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Post by clownz0r »

jlogsdon wrote: post #29
ceejayoz wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

AFAIK, it was opt-in. I'm sure they (like me) just never enabled it.
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