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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 drivebyacct2 »

javajosh wrote: post #148
drivebyacct2 wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

You are a troll.

Other people clearly agree with me. Is there a reason you feel this way? You can still subscribe to and read RSS feeds. As I said, the sharing aspect you mention, while a part of Google Reader, had nothing to do with RSS (the idea OR protocol) and was an add-on.

Naturally as Google wanted to unite social strategies they shifted "Sharing on Reader" to "Sharing on G+". I don't see why that's shocking or terribly hard to cope with.

And most of all I don't know why me expressing that makes me a troll. Or are you just angry and unable to articulate yourself outside of calling me names?

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

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Post by javajosh »

drivebyacct2 wrote: post #151
javajosh wrote: post #148

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You are a troll.

Other people clearly agree with me. Is there a reason you feel this way? You can still subscribe to and read RSS feeds. As I said, the sharing aspect you mention, while a part of Google Reader, had nothing to do with RSS (the idea OR protocol) and was an add-on. Naturally as Google wanted to unite social strategies they shifted "Sharing on Reader" to "Sharing on G+". I don't see why that's shocking or terribly hard t…

If there was any doubt in my mind before, you've removed it.

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

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Post by drivebyacct2 »

javajosh wrote: post #154
drivebyacct2 wrote: post #151

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Other people clearly agree with me. Is there a reason you feel this way? You can still subscribe to and read RSS feeds. As I said, the sharing aspect you mention, while a part of Google Reader, had nothing to do with RSS (the idea OR protocol) and was an add-on. Naturally as Google wanted to unite social strategies they shifted "Sharing on Reader" to "Sharing on G+". I don't see why that's shocking or terribly hard t…

If there was any doubt in my mind before, you've removed it.

What is your problem? Again, do you have anything to say? You realize that by calling people names and not engaging in discussion, you're acting precisely like a troll, right?

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

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Post by oohaba »

Not sure if this has always been a "feature" of Facebook's email service, but apparently you can login with the facebook email address. A would-be hacker only needs to guess your password.

Case in point: a friend has already told me there have been renewed attempts to log into her account from other locations and devices.

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

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Post by namank »

Well, this is actually a good thing given Facebook's mission, "Making the world more open and connected."

To do this, you have to have public profiles. Do you want your personal email to show up on public profiles? But Facebook email, on the other hand, probably doesn't matter (at least not right now when the "open" paradigm is still in infancy.). Its OK to be shown to random people and search engines and other features that come down the pipeline.

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

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Post by nickheer »

kennywinker wrote: post #138
nickheer wrote: post #122

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Since this change, I haven't seen any difference in my contacts. It looks like it's still pulling all available email addresses, not just facebook.com ones.

I assume you're running iOS 6, yes?

Yes indeed.

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

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Post by WarDekar »

timdorr wrote: post #61
zerohp wrote: post #7

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

But to be fair, they've said everyone with a Facebook username gets username@facebook.com. You can visit a profile, look at the URL, and put 2 and 2 together. It'd be worse if it was a randomized, private email address that was made public.

I have a username and my e-mail was changed to [7 digit integer]@facebook.com

So, no, not exactly.

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