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Yeah but thats not Facebook, you see.
They didn't automatically update your email listed as alttab@facebook.com?
of course they did. google it. it's an old news. god.
Send a Facebook message to anyone's inbox, for free
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#32It's kinda sad that Facebook gives people a way to rat people out for using fake names. I hope they don't see much usage.
I think it's not kinda sad, but outright offensive. I understand the commercial value of a fully identifiable and tracked person online, but there has to be a line to draw.
Every transparency feature is opt-in by default. Privacy is slowly becoming a dirty word for people who have something to hide. And those who fight for it are marginalized and made look as villains.
It is really bizarre to witness. At some point this rush for user identities reminds me of the Wall Street and their unregulated lust for profit despite the consequence.
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#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
It took two months for a response for me from their security team, and in the end their team dismissed my bug as a discrepancy in privacy settings (it isn't). For me at least, it's not really worthwhile trying to make an information leak a publicly known fact — nobody really cares.
What is the bug you submitted that they dismissed?
Under certain conditions contact information of a friend can be extracted when it logically shouldn't be able to.
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It's useful for exposing profiles where someone is pretending to be someone else.
Theres a seperate action for that, see the screenshot.
You can't use that action if person being impersonated is not on facebook. They require you to identify the account of the person being impersonated.
I know this because I tried to report an account impersonating my grandmother, who doesn't have a computer.
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#35I heard that apparently there's a thing called "email" where you can send messages to anyone for free.
Facebook is working on making that useless too by changing everyone's profiles to only list their @facebook.com address and redirecting all email from non-"friend"s to the bit bucket labeled "other" in Facebook's message center. Source: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/25/facebook-changes-e-...
It's really frustrating - it's nearly impossible to connect with people you aren't already friends with, since people rarely check the "other" folder.
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#36I wonder how much time the OP provided to FB to respond.
It took two months for a response for me from their security team, and in the end their team dismissed my bug as a discrepancy in privacy settings (it isn't). For me at least, it's not really worthwhile trying to make an information leak a publicly known fact — nobody really cares.
I've ran into this too... their security team came back with "That's by design".
Not too long afterwards a friend of mine automated it, stuck it up on Google code and it might be fixed now ...
Re: Send a Facebook message to anyone's inbox, for free
#37Sounds like the job of a junior-level developer at Facebook, without the product management oversight of the feature. Whoopsie.
Or simply a feature that existed prior to the other folder.
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#38teri ma ki