Facebook e-mail mess: Address books altered, e-mail lost • Hacker News Board

Re: Facebook e-mail mess: Address books altered, e-mail lost

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Post by pkulak » Sat, Jun 30, 2012, 10:24 PM UTC

I've sent several emails to my Facebook email address just for shits and giggles. I've never gotten a single one to go through.

Re: Facebook e-mail mess: Address books altered, e-mail lost

#12

Post by simonsarris » Sat, Jun 30, 2012, 10:24 PM UTC

domador wrote: post #7

raganwald wrote: post #2

“Everything that has transpired has done so according to my design.”—Mark Zuckerberg

That doesn't speak too well of his design ability.

Just to be clear, that quote is from Emperor Palpatine (Star Wars), not really Zuckerberg

Re: Facebook e-mail mess: Address books altered, e-mail lost

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Post by Achshar » Sat, Jun 30, 2012, 10:33 PM UTC

pkulak wrote: post #11

I've sent several emails to my Facebook email address just for shits and giggles. I've never gotten a single one to go through.

You probably already know this but just to confirm, emails dont show up in messages. Instead they go to 'other' in messages, which no one checks anyways.

Re: Facebook e-mail mess: Address books altered, e-mail lost

#14

Post by popee » Sat, Jun 30, 2012, 10:35 PM UTC

raganwald wrote: post #8

domador wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That doesn't speak too well of his design ability.

Let me see now. They have pushed their email address out into people’s address books and taken control of their private communications. Where is the poor (business) design?

LOL

Re: Facebook e-mail mess: Address books altered, e-mail lost

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Post by Fargren » Sat, Jun 30, 2012, 10:35 PM UTC

pkulak wrote: post #11

I've sent several emails to my Facebook email address just for shits and giggles. I've never gotten a single one to go through.

How long have you waited? I heard of emails to Facebook taking as much of half an hour to arrive.

Re: Facebook e-mail mess: Address books altered, e-mail lost

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Post by graue » Sat, Jun 30, 2012, 10:35 PM UTC

As someone who quit facebook a while back, I can't help but feel that this kind of event vindicates me. Sometimes I'm tempted to re-create a minimal account on the service just for findability, but even that small step would have been enough for facebook to hijack my contact info in a friend's phone. There really is no way to have a facebook account at all, no matter how infrequently you use it, without getting screwed over.

Re: Facebook e-mail mess: Address books altered, e-mail lost

#17

Post by daeken » Sat, Jun 30, 2012, 10:36 PM UTC

emeraldd wrote: post #6

How does this not violate CFAA? This really sounds like a company that believes it is above the law.

Uh, how could it violate CFAA? It's their own systems, and their data (they own it all).

Re: Facebook e-mail mess: Address books altered, e-mail lost

#18

Post by domador » Sat, Jun 30, 2012, 10:36 PM UTC

simonsarris wrote: post #12

domador wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That doesn't speak too well of his design ability.

Just to be clear, that quote is from Emperor Palpatine (Star Wars), not really Zuckerberg

Oh, I see. That speaks well of raganwald's wit and sarcasm.

Re: Facebook e-mail mess: Address books altered, e-mail lost

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Post by popee » Sat, Jun 30, 2012, 10:37 PM UTC

jpeterson wrote: post #10

raganwald wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Let me see now. They have pushed their email address out into people’s address books and taken control of their private communications. Where is the poor (business) design?

Where is the poor (business) design? You'll see this when people start recognizing Facebook as the crap it really is, and stop using it.

Eventually and maybe even sooner then most think, fb will become jet another dinosaur. It's just a matter of time. Fly dinosaur, fly :-)

Re: Facebook e-mail mess: Address books altered, e-mail lost

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Post by simonster » Sat, Jun 30, 2012, 10:38 PM UTC

Facebook managed to remove any opportunity to email me from my Facebook page. I'd previously set my @facebook.com email as visible only to me, so that it wasn't published to the page. They didn't change that, but they did set all of my other email addresses as "hidden from timeline."