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

Earlier discussion, now 2 days old: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4151433

Here's some discussion and a link describing how to fix it: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4157589

I'm actually not able to change my email settings currently. It forced my real email to "not public" mode and my facebook email to "public" and the buttons are unresponsive. I also can't "remove this from my timeline" either.

Update: A few hard refreshes later, the buttons started to work.

FWIW: I don't have timeline, and it changed mine to @facebook.com

There are three discussions about this on the front page :-/ .

I think this is just might be one of those things which would ticks us off as techies... but techies are the minority audience for sites like facebook.

Do emails sent to the facebook id go to the standard facebook 'message system'? If so, for a majority of people this will probably make sense... want to message somebody on facebook? You don't have to login to facebook! Email them at xyz@facebook.com. I didn't know you could do that, pretty sure a lot of other people didn't either. Now a lot of folks probably are updated about this feature.

In addition: non-techies who have accidentally exposed their private email id's will now have their facebook id's scraped instead... and the ones who exposed their private emails intentionally will change it back anyway.

However, all said and done... it could have been done differently.