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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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Does anyone know how to forward that address to a real email address which I can access with an email program? Is there an Facebook API for those Messages? Facebook chat can be easily plugged into my XMPP client (except for group chats).

I'd rather not delete that address because I do not want someone else to have it. But as it is now the email ends up in a subfolder of Messages called "Other" and I am in no way notified about them unless I happen to click on Messages and recognize the small unread count beneath "Other".

This is really useless.

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

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Post by drivebyacct2 »

javajosh wrote: post #80
drivebyacct2 wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

They did nothing to change the RSS portion of Google Reader, the rss icon is a Chrome issue and is easily solved with one of a dozen extensions. The feature they removed was "sharing" and that was really ancillary to Reader/rss anyway.

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

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Post by zizee »

samstave wrote: post #89
spindritf wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's an "auto Youtube login"?

Google tried to get users to link their gmail accounts and youtube accounts. Thus, if someone sent you a youtube link in gmail and you clicked it - you would be logged into youtube already/automatically so that they can track your viewing behavior.

I'm sure they could track you without linking through two accounts together. They also track all link clicks from within gmail.

Not saying the tracking isn't bad, just that the account linking had more to do with unifying the Google experience than tracking.

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

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Post by yesbabyyes »

idleloops wrote: post #74
SquareWheel wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Alternatively, click Cancel when it asks you to add the app, and it will redirect to the original article. I think this is what annoys me most on Facebook.

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

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Post by zhoutong »

cfqycwz wrote: post #72

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 address…

Yes, and how about iMessage and FaceTime that require email addresses in contacts to work? And also the 3rd party sites that rely on Facebook OAuth API to identify users based on emails (they could use uids, but I'm sure some are still using email).
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