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So I just disabled the Facebook contacts sync on my phone, because as of today it is useless for me. I'm also thinking of uninstalling the Facebook app, because the web interface is good enough for me, and I kept the Facebook app just for the contacts sync.
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…
I understand that they want to read my mail. They want to know who i interact with. But why do you put up with that? Not having a Facebook account is starting to make me feel like an anti-social loser. But I just can't get over how creepy they are. How do other people live with that?
Pre Facebookitization of profile email addresses, if you wanted to communicate outside of Facebook or even begin to exit FB altogether, you had a ready means of staying in touch with at least those FB friends who displayed an email address on their profile.
Now, you are stuck with FB to stay in touch, unless/until you and each such friend exchange a non-FB email address or other means of contact.
P.S. As an example of the former, any time a FB friend wants to discuss a health-related issue, the first thing I do is take the conversation outside FB.
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…
In my experience, test messages never work, but real messages always do. Somehow.
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In my experience, test messages never work, but real messages always do. Somehow.
You'll never see this, but in light of todays announcements about facebook dropping mail, apparently tons of real messages do indeed get lost.
My statement was about email forwarding from my domain... D:
Crap thing changed the primary email address of the contacts n my iphone ios6
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…
On my Windows phone, if I have a Windows Live contact (the base contact saving system) with an email, and then port in Facebook contacts that match, it merges the accounts into one "profile" and it doesn't overwrite emails; it saves both emails and tells me where each one came from. Maybe if Android had a better system, this wouldn't have happened?
It's not Facebook's job to take something like that into account.
Crap thing changed the primary email address of the contacts n my iphone ios6