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

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

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Post by mh- »

desigooner wrote: post #68
jaredsohn wrote: post #40

It seems like they didn't change your previous preferences but rather added a new one and changed how they interpret preferences as to what is displayed. If you look at your list of e-mail addresses, it will let you choose who to share it with if it should be shown on timeline. Previously I had a real e-mail address that was being shared with friends and another real address that was for 'only me'. When I looked at m…

FWIW, I had my real email addresses showing before this weekend and when I checked this morning, the only email address that was being shown was the @facebook.com one. My other 2 email addresses (one visible to each of my friends and one only to a close few) were hidden from my timeline. Shady!!

I'm having the same experience, but I only had a single email address previously (the one I signed up with years ago) and it was visible to friends until this update.

It's safe to assume that the vast majority of users fit this case: signed up with an email address, never added a second one.

Since it affects this use case.. I'm going to posit that this is quite widespread.

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

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Post by mike-cardwell »

josteink wrote: post #186
eric-hu wrote: post #141

Earlier quoted context omitted.

On top of that, I tried to remove my new Facebook email address from my profile. I got the following error message: There was an error removing the email: xxxxxxx@facebook.com Did I type the wrong password? Maybe that was supposed to be a capital letter. Oh, there's a different 'wrong password' email...

You cannot remove it. You just need to set it visible only to you, set it not visible on your timeline. And then setup another public email which you will have to show to everyone instead. I'm pretty sure you didn't have to do that before.

I don't think the above is true. I currently have two email addresses in my profile. My personal one, and the Facebook one. Both are set to "Me Only", and also "Hidden from profile"

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

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Post by mokus »

mtgx wrote: post #54

This is so much worse than anything Google has ever forced upon users with Google+.

I haven't had problems with G+ specifically, but I did have to delete my gmail account (which I only created so I could access the android app store) because it was impossible to have a gmail address without it being my "primary" address for all things google-related.

Facebook at least manages to let me hide the facebook.com address.

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

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Post by bitskits »

geoffhill wrote: post #96

Just go into your About Me and enable "hidden from timeline" for the @facebook.com email address. Now everything is back to normal.

The fact that you can easily change it back doesn't make it ok for FB to make these kinds of sweeping changes. Again, FB shows its poor stewardship of user account data. I'll happily continue only using G+.

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

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Post by bad_user »

desigooner wrote: post #68
jaredsohn wrote: post #40

It seems like they didn't change your previous preferences but rather added a new one and changed how they interpret preferences as to what is displayed. If you look at your list of e-mail addresses, it will let you choose who to share it with if it should be shown on timeline. Previously I had a real e-mail address that was being shared with friends and another real address that was for 'only me'. When I looked at m…

FWIW, I had my real email addresses showing before this weekend and when I checked this morning, the only email address that was being shown was the @facebook.com one. My other 2 email addresses (one visible to each of my friends and one only to a close few) were hidden from my timeline. Shady!!

I can confirm. I also had 2 public email addresses that were hidden.

I also remember that I always disallowed Facebook from using a "fake" address in case some app wanted my email address.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

oohaba wrote: post #157

Not sure if this has always been a "feature" of Facebook's email service, but apparently you can login with the facebook email address. A would-be hacker only needs to guess your password. Case in point: a friend has already told me there have been renewed attempts to log into her account from other locations and devices.

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

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Post by fghh45sdfhr3 »

jfoutz wrote: post #30

Amusingly, facebook dropped 2 out of 3 test messages from the other address facebook knows about. Seriously, if anything should be whitelisted, it's that. I understand that they want to read my mail. They want to know who i interact with. Why make such a shitty mail client? No POP. no IMAP. Can't view headers. It's not clear how much html is allowed, because they're dropping to many messages. They're not even pretend…

I understand that they want to read my mail. They want to know who i interact with.

But why do you put up with that?

Not having a Facebook account is starting to make me feel like an anti-social loser. But I just can't get over how creepy they are. How do other people live with that?

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

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Post by spydertennis »

omarchowdhury wrote: post #127
spydertennis wrote: post #112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think for now the api is still returning their correct email address.

Have you tested it? Is this going to stay that way or will API usage move to returning only @facebook.com as well?

Yes I just tested it.
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