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I actually created an email address just for the purpose of creating a facebook account with it. Never shared it with anyone, never really used it for anything

• beagle3 6y ago
  Your friends uploaded their addressbooks, knowingly or unknowingly (e.g. regular use of Instagram, FB Messenger, or WhatsApp, or the FB App would make that seem completely innocent) So they know "John Smith" whose friends with "Joe User" on Facebook, has an email address for "Joe User" that is different than the one listed for "John Smith"'s account; now they have both. That's part of their business. Personally, I own a domain. Every retailer, website, etc. I interact with gets their own email address. I have no doubt Facebook knows some of them, and can maybe even connect some of them to my profile -- but it's not certain. P.S: I don't even use facebook myself.
  • artificialLimbs 6y ago
    In several years of doing this, I have not gotten one single piece of spam. Not sure if it's related, but I wonder if $COMPANY is less likely to sell $COMPANY@domain.com to a third party.
    • beagle3 6y ago
      I’ve gotten quite a bit of spam, mostly from well known breaches - surprisingly few leaked out to become pure spam. However, I’ve received several LinkedIn and Facebook invites to these emails from businesses I interacted with - so I know LinkedIn and Facebook (at the very least) have — at least in the past — failed to make the connection between identities.