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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 praxulus »

forgotAgain wrote: post #57
ThePherocity wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

They're ethically obligated to hide infomation users don't want released, but are they really expected to publish everything their users ask to make public? It's annoying, but it doesn't spur anything like the moral outrage I would feel if they publicized your hidden addresses. At worst its a minor inconvenience.

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

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Post by cfqycwz »

This morning my mother was complaining that many of the email addresses in her Droid Razr contacts had been replaced with Facebook ones. It would seem the Facebook app had been populating her address book with emails and contact photos, and decided to migrate all her Facebook-using contacts over to this convenient new system. That seems like a much greater controversy to me than Facebook hiding people's email addresses.

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

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Post by drivebyacct2 »

mtgx wrote: post #54

This is so much worse than anything Google has ever forced upon users with Google+.

What has Google "forced upon users" with Google+? Especially given that you can still remove G+ from your large Google profile (for now at least)

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

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Post by idleloops »

SquareWheel wrote: post #56
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.

Try right clicking (or menu key), copy the url, open new tab (CTRL+T), go to location bar (CTRL + L), and paste (CTRL + V). It's the Javascript I think that hijacks the click.

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

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Post by JSadowski »

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

As it is right now, I have a unique email address setup for Facebook on one of my domains. If anyone sends email to it other than Facebook, it gets instantly marked as spam.... I only wonder why I'm giving Facebook a pass and not marking their emails as spam too.

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

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Post by stfu »

drivebyacct2 wrote: post #73
mtgx wrote: post #54

This is so much worse than anything Google has ever forced upon users with Google+.

What has Google "forced upon users" with Google+? Especially given that you can still remove G+ from your large Google profile (for now at least)

One thing that I still find highly annoying is the auto Youtube login.

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

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Post by notatoad »

forgotAgain wrote: post #57
ThePherocity wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

The only justification i can see is that it's facebook, and this is pretty much the sort of behaviour i expect from facebook. i have a hard time getting outraged over behaviour that is totally in character.

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

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Post by hcarvalhoalves »

You what this is? This is money people having too much say on the product.

I have no doubts this is so they have one more metric to impress (number of emails exchanged thru Facebook). Then they will proceed to selling paid messages for advertisers.

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

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Post by javajosh »

drivebyacct2 wrote: post #73
mtgx wrote: post #54

This is so much worse than anything Google has ever forced upon users with Google+.

What has Google "forced upon users" with Google+? Especially given that you can still remove G+ from your large Google profile (for now at least)

One big thing that had a real impact on me was removal of the social features in Google Reader. I'd also argue that removing the ubiquitous "subscribe to this site via RSS" icon in the location bar was also damaging. RSS readers are a boon to the open, eclectic web, and any action that reduces their use is damaging, in my opinion.
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