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FTA "It's hard not to wonder if the issue could have anything to do with yesterday's announcement of a new messaging system on the site that would work using yo
by Timothee 16y ago
FTA "It's hard not to wonder if the issue could have anything to do with yesterday's announcement of a new messaging system on the site that would work using your Facebook username for an @facebook.com email address"
I don't like when blogs do that: the link between female accounts-only disabled and Facebook's new messaging system is pretty weak. The only reason they make the link is to have people read that other story about Facebook. TechCrunch does that all the time and I find that slightly annoying. It feels like the kid who brings up unrelated stories just to show he knows stuff.
- rwwmike 16y agoActually, that's not at ALL why I wrote that. I wrote that because I found it hard to not wonder if the two things were connected. Suddenly, user names are becoming @facebook.com email addresses. I also wrote this line before Facebook ever responded to our questions (which they did just a moment before posting) and didn't remove it. Before the explanation, Boy Genius Report was speculating that it was a hack because of the request for a government ID. A quick Google search showed that a government ID request seemed to be a standard thing when Facebook wants to reactivate certain accounts, so I figured that wasn't the case and postulated that perhaps it had to do with Facebooks latest change...its messaging system. The only reason I ever put links into a story is so that if you don't know about that, and it's readily accessible, you don't need to search for it. :)