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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 jaredsohn »

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 a browser extension similar to what was posted yesterday to automate this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4153772

At least read the first comment to figure out which one to use.

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

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Post by kennywinker »

zhoutong wrote: post #100
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).

Conspiracy theorist in me wonders if this move might have anything to do with the new facebook integration in iOS... millions of iPhones are about to start automatically pulling contact info from facebook, wouldn't it be nice if all those people started using their @facebook.com email address?

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

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Post by slig »

zhoutong wrote: post #100
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).

This completely blows away the "let's the users sign up using facebook, we store their email and if we ever decide to ditch the FB login, we can always email them a password reset"

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

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Post by FixThisPOSSite »

jfoutz wrote: post #30

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 pretend…

What do you expect from this moronic site, which is still trying to use E-mail addresses as user IDs? The only hope is that this change will be a tiny step toward informing users that they should log in with the string that precedes "@facebook.com". Otherwise, it's just dumb and dumb: http://goldmanosi.blogspot.com/2012/06/forcing-people-to-use...

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

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Post by ok_craig »

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.

This actually sounds pretty convenient.

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

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Post by Periodic »

desigooner wrote: post #68
jaredsohn wrote: post #40

It 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 m…

FWIW, I had my real email addresses showing before this weekend and when I checked this morning, the only email address that was being shown was the @facebook.com one. My other 2 email addresses (one visible to each of my friends and one only to a close few) were hidden from my timeline. Shady!!

I can confirm. I had my wife check my account, and she has the most liberal viewing privileges of my profile out of anyone I know. She now only sees a @facebook.com email address. My primary address, @gmail.com, is no longer visible under Contact Info on my profile.
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