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I don't think its overstating the situation to say: Facebook changes profiles without permission or notification.
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If you don't have a username then currently its your FB id although, if you do have a FB username then the @facebook.com email is the same.
I didn't set a Facebook username, and Facebook force-assigned me one for this email address.
I don't think its overstating the situation to say: Facebook changes profiles without permission or notification.
But to be fair, they've said everyone with a Facebook username gets username@facebook.com. You can visit a profile, look at the URL, and put 2 and 2 together. It'd be worse if it was a randomized, private email address that was made public.
Well I was using my gmail account to collect all the worthless emails Facebook sends me. Now I guess I will be wasting Facebook's disk space instead. On the positive side, they'll be getting no data to mine since they already know what I do there.
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Timeline was rolled out to all accounts. Are you using a plugin to approximate the old look or something?
Nope, don't have timeline yet. I refuse, lol. On a side note, I didn't do anything to keep the old display style, I just didn't manually switch myself to the new timeline, and they never auto adopted me over.
FWIW: I don't have timeline, and it changed mine to @facebook.com
This is so much worse than anything Google has ever forced upon users with Google+.
I don't think it's worse than the "obligatory real name" thing. This at least can be fixed by a savvy user by changing preferences.
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…
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Timeline was rolled out to all accounts. Are you using a plugin to approximate the old look or something?
I've still seen some people who don't have Timeline yet. It is rare though.
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But to be fair, they've said everyone with a Facebook username gets username@facebook.com. You can visit a profile, look at the URL, and put 2 and 2 together. It'd be worse if it was a randomized, private email address that was made public.
The important aspect of the change is they hid peoples' non-facebook e-mail addresses.