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There is no fine line here. Facebook changed a personal attribute of their users. This particular action is not justifiable under any circumstances I can see.
The only justification i can see is that it's facebook, and this is pretty much the sort of behaviour i expect from facebook. i have a hard time getting outraged over behaviour that is totally in character.
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I assume you're running iOS 6, yes?
Yes indeed.
They changed the default e-mail address that appears in your profile. I'm happy about this. It means all my Facebook friends have a way of contacting me that isn't my primary e-mail address, meaning that type of communication is easily compartmentalized and thus taken care of.
I'm pretty sure they disabled this functionality so they can show the map instead which gets them more clicks into their site proper and helps their traffic. Really pisses me off because I take a picture every check in and think they are more interesting and don't think people should be forced into foursquare to view them and don't want to have to post them separately - then in their marketing material for the new face lift they even show a picture of a facebook post with a picture. Lies.
With Facebook making this change, I guess anyone who is unaware of this and syncs their Facebook contacts to their phone (either directly or via apps) stands to lose the 'real' email addresses of their friends and especially once they sync back to their desktop/cloud/gmail etc!!
But on the other hand I'm seeing a lot of new Facebook email addresses in my contacts.
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 logi…
> 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. There are easy ways to advertise this fact, without changing anyone's personal info in their Facebook account. It could be as simple as adding the text "You can also send messages to JaneDoe@facebook.com" to JaneDoe's profile page.
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…
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Yes indeed.
I'm afraid the details of the iOS 6 features other than what's announced in WWDC are still under NDA (which you signed when you gain access to the developer beta). So perhaps you want to remove that comment.
http://www.apple.com/ios/ios6/#facebook
(Click the "Contacts and calendars", and see that contacts can have multiple addresses, even with Facebook sync.)