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Facebook e-mail mess: Address books altered, e-mail lost
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Re: Facebook e-mail mess: Address books altered, e-mail lost
#32I'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.
That's not consistent w/ my testing:
- email from address associated w/ facebook account goes directly to facebook messages
- email from address not associated w/ facebook account does not arrive, in neither messages nor 'other'
Re: Facebook e-mail mess: Address books altered, e-mail lost
#33Why would anyone on God's green earth sync their Address book to facebook!?! It's a social network for crying out loud, not a work place! WT..!! This is what happen's when you mix work and pleasure ha ha, it's a stupid kid's playground to post stupid thing's and do nothing all day! I just can't get past it, why would anyone sync their address book to FB!? ha ha ha
Congratulations on your amazing first post. By waiting a year, you've really managed to get a feel for what's acceptable here.
Re: Facebook e-mail mess: Address books altered, e-mail lost
#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
"Pray I don't alter it any further."
You get free unlimited photo storage, free groups, events, messaging, status updates, and more. All your friends are on it and using it. You use it to keep in touch with people around the block and around the globe in real time. All we ask is that your private communications never again leave this application. Perhaps you think you’re being treated unfairly?
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Re: Facebook e-mail mess: Address books altered, e-mail lost
#35I just deleted the Facebook app from my iPhone. I have no idea if it altered any of my contacts, but this certainly does scare me enough to warrant deletion.
Delete facebook from your life. Lawyer up. Hit the gym.
Words to live by.
Re: Facebook e-mail mess: Address books altered, e-mail lost
#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
"Pray I don't alter it any further."
You get free unlimited photo storage, free groups, events, messaging, status updates, and more. All your friends are on it and using it. You use it to keep in touch with people around the block and around the globe in real time. All we ask is that your private communications never again leave this application. Perhaps you think you’re being treated unfairly?
There's a difference between complaining about features within Facebook (timeline, etc) and changes Facebook tries to make outside of it's app. Changing your personal contact details is way outside.
Re: Facebook e-mail mess: Address books altered, e-mail lost
#37Well, this is my gripe with their "go fast and break things" mantra. It works as long as you have such a highly desirable product that your users just don't care if you're doing everything right. (Or maybe you're in a non-mission-critical business, or better yet, your customers are a bunch of kids!) I'm all for going fast and sincerely believe in "A sense of urgency", but Facebook is really lucky they're not serving…
Facebook is serving shareholders now. I'm hoping there are some serious repercussions internally at FB for this, because as a shareholder, I'm pissed they messed this up because the user base is upset and will continue to stop trusting Facebook.
How's the stock supposed to get back to 38 now?
Re: Facebook e-mail mess: Address books altered, e-mail lost
#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Possibly, but just for the sake of an interesting discussion, what is there about this particular blatant “It screws users over but it's good for Facebook” move that is different than all the other moves they’ve pulled?
I think the difference here is that everything they've done before now has been more or less bounded by my own actions. If they screw my privacy, it's my own damned fault for posting sensitive stuff to their site. Hell, even if they track me around the web, I should've been more careful about blocking their cookies.
But this is another ballgame. What they've done here is effectively hijack a completely unrelated and ubiquitous communication channel — without any action on my part, and without giving any indication of doing so!
I don't even use Facebook, but since I created a Facebook account at some point in the past, they potentially have access to my inbound email traffic. That's just absurd and stupid.
Re: Facebook e-mail mess: Address books altered, e-mail lost
#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
"Pray I don't alter it any further."
You get free unlimited photo storage, free groups, events, messaging, status updates, and more. All your friends are on it and using it. You use it to keep in touch with people around the block and around the globe in real time. All we ask is that your private communications never again leave this application. Perhaps you think you’re being treated unfairly?
Facebook will fix this embarrassing cock-up as if it had never happened - as always. I find your lack of faith disturbing.
Re: Facebook e-mail mess: Address books altered, e-mail lost
#40As 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 screw…
How do you know when someone has deleted their Facebook account?
They'll tell you.