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Facebook changes everyone's listed emails to 'Facebook.com'

117 points by kgermino 14y ago

jquery 14y ago
This is a major breach of trust.
- drivingmenuts 14y ago
  This is a major breach of trust that no one has any right to be surprised by. Seriously, why is everyone so surprised every time this happens? Are we collectively saying "There's no way they'll every make everyone agree to <insert breach here>"?
  - vladd 14y ago
    Because most people fail to learn from the past. http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/03/07/234204/facebook-founder-accused-of-hacking-into-rivals-email http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/03/07/234204/facebook-foun...
- clobber 14y ago
  For users of facebook, it's been one breach of trust after another.
- zem 14y ago
  it would be if anyone still trusted facebook. seriously, i don't think even the most fanboyish teenagers trust facebook; they just use it because it's useful and all their friends are there.
eridius 14y ago
This is rather shocking. It's bad enough that Facebook periodically changes privacy settings, but this time they're changing the actual personal information listed in your profile. There's really only one reason I still have a Facebook account, and it's so old friends can find my current contact information if they need it. I really wish a viable competitor would appear and provide me an alternate option.
- guth 14y ago
  There is a competitor... The problem is, it's not enough to provide "you" the option. Many people have to agree to accept it together...
  - eridius 14y ago
    There is no viable competitor. Google+ is such a clusterfuck, especially with how they handled Google Apps emails.
    - jrockway 14y ago
      What's the problem with Google Apps emails?
      - eridius 14y ago
        For a long time you simply couldn't sign up for Google+ with a Google Apps email. This means that now I have a Google+ account attached to a rarely-used gmail address I had lying around, instead of my primary email address that anyone who knows me would use to try to find me. And if I want to create a Google+ account with my primary email, that will leave me with two distinct Google+ accounts and with no way to migrate all my contacts from my first account over to the second. Oh, and because Google couldn't resist making it even worse, some Google properties supported Google Apps emails and some didn't, which meant I actually had 3 Google accounts, two of which used the same email. When Google "fixed" that, they forced me to rename one of those accounts, except their data migrator tool is completely broken. So now I have 3 Google accounts, one of which is a throwaway gmail account that contains most of my data but on an email address I never use, one is my primary email which is a Google Apps account and contains almost no data, and the third is a garbage mangled form of my Google Apps email (it's myemail+google@mydomain) which contains all the data that used to be on my Google Apps email but which turned out to be associated with the shadow non-Google-Apps account instead. It's a clusterfuck and I have no idea what to do about it.
        14y ago
jfoutz 14y ago
It's spam prevention. Since you can't actually receive email from an external source without screwing around with privacy settings, most mail will just bounce. Since there's no IMAP or even POP suport, the mail that does get through will be left unread.
- outside1234 14y ago
  this is about spam protection like integrating IE into Windows was about making the install easier. Seriously, this is about getting marketshare for a failing product.
- learc83 14y ago
  I don't think it's very effective spam prevention. gmail.com and yahoo.com alone account for a large percentage of email addresses. Just add a few more to the list of domains to try, and there is a high probability you'll get something through.
  - kgermino 14y ago
    jfoutz appears to be joking.
- InclinedPlane 14y ago
  It's spam prevention... from all of my friends who are the only people who should be able to see my email on facebook? What sort of signal is facebook sending about their service then?
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gte910h 14y ago
Mine didn't get changed? Perhaps this is just for people without an email?
- mike-cardwell 14y ago
  I had a hidden email. They added an unhidden facebook.com email address for me. I've just gone and hid it.
  - res0nat0r 14y ago
    Your facebook.com email address was exposed with the same permissions as your profile. My personal email is still visible to my friends only, and my facebook.com address is exposed to only me when I check just now. Also anyone who can see your profile knows your facebook.com address already, as it is the same as the URL to your profile.
    - zerohp 14y ago
      Yes, exactly. That's why its so stupid for them to hide my other email addresses from my friends. I listed them specifically because they are alternate means of contacting me. My personal email addresses were exposed to my friends, but when this change occurred they were hidden on my profile and only the facebook.com address was shown.
  - jmagar 14y ago
    Your hiding it doesn't help though... your Facebook email address is <<username>>@facebook.com I don't see anyway to keep that secret.
    - djloche 14y ago
      It may not be secret, but if you choose to have the @facebook.com email address listed on your profile, it suggests that the @facebook.com email address is an appropriate email address to contact you at. I hid it from my contact information because facebook is not the best way to contact me and I don't want anyone to assume that it is because someone at facebook decided to see how many people don't do anything.
tubbo 14y ago
This is NOT shocking enough to be posted every fucking time you see a newspaper write about it.
instakill 14y ago
It seems that Facebook as a company has an OCD to keep changing shit. If not interfaces then API methods.
biafra 14y ago
Facebook has notifications for almost anything that happens on their site which might be interesting for me to know about. Why on earth do they not notify me about emails to my @facebook.com address?
valugi 14y ago
They did not change mine.

117 points by kgermino 14y ago

jquery 14y ago

This is a major breach of trust.

drivingmenuts 14y ago
This is a major breach of trust that no one has any right to be surprised by. Seriously, why is everyone so surprised every time this happens? Are we collectively saying "There's no way they'll every make everyone agree to <insert breach here>"?
- vladd 14y ago
  Because most people fail to learn from the past. http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/03/07/234204/facebook-founder-accused-of-hacking-into-rivals-email http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/03/07/234204/facebook-foun...
clobber 14y ago
For users of facebook, it's been one breach of trust after another.
zem 14y ago
it would be if anyone still trusted facebook. seriously, i don't think even the most fanboyish teenagers trust facebook; they just use it because it's useful and all their friends are there.

eridius 14y ago

This is rather shocking. It's bad enough that Facebook periodically changes privacy settings, but this time they're changing the actual personal information listed in your profile. There's really only one reason I still have a Facebook account, and it's so old friends can find my current contact information if they need it. I really wish a viable competitor would appear and provide me an alternate option.

guth 14y ago
There is a competitor... The problem is, it's not enough to provide "you" the option. Many people have to agree to accept it together...
- eridius 14y ago
  There is no viable competitor. Google+ is such a clusterfuck, especially with how they handled Google Apps emails.
  - jrockway 14y ago
    What's the problem with Google Apps emails?
    - eridius 14y ago
      For a long time you simply couldn't sign up for Google+ with a Google Apps email. This means that now I have a Google+ account attached to a rarely-used gmail address I had lying around, instead of my primary email address that anyone who knows me would use to try to find me. And if I want to create a Google+ account with my primary email, that will leave me with two distinct Google+ accounts and with no way to migrate all my contacts from my first account over to the second. Oh, and because Google couldn't resist making it even worse, some Google properties supported Google Apps emails and some didn't, which meant I actually had 3 Google accounts, two of which used the same email. When Google "fixed" that, they forced me to rename one of those accounts, except their data migrator tool is completely broken. So now I have 3 Google accounts, one of which is a throwaway gmail account that contains most of my data but on an email address I never use, one is my primary email which is a Google Apps account and contains almost no data, and the third is a garbage mangled form of my Google Apps email (it's myemail+google@mydomain) which contains all the data that used to be on my Google Apps email but which turned out to be associated with the shadow non-Google-Apps account instead. It's a clusterfuck and I have no idea what to do about it.
      - 14y ago

jfoutz 14y ago

It's spam prevention. Since you can't actually receive email from an external source without screwing around with privacy settings, most mail will just bounce. Since there's no IMAP or even POP suport, the mail that does get through will be left unread.

outside1234 14y ago
this is about spam protection like integrating IE into Windows was about making the install easier. Seriously, this is about getting marketshare for a failing product.
learc83 14y ago
I don't think it's very effective spam prevention. gmail.com and yahoo.com alone account for a large percentage of email addresses. Just add a few more to the list of domains to try, and there is a high probability you'll get something through.
- kgermino 14y ago
  jfoutz appears to be joking.
InclinedPlane 14y ago
It's spam prevention... from all of my friends who are the only people who should be able to see my email on facebook? What sort of signal is facebook sending about their service then?

deleted 14y ago

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gte910h 14y ago

Mine didn't get changed? Perhaps this is just for people without an email?

mike-cardwell 14y ago
I had a hidden email. They added an unhidden facebook.com email address for me. I've just gone and hid it.
- res0nat0r 14y ago
  Your facebook.com email address was exposed with the same permissions as your profile. My personal email is still visible to my friends only, and my facebook.com address is exposed to only me when I check just now. Also anyone who can see your profile knows your facebook.com address already, as it is the same as the URL to your profile.
  - zerohp 14y ago
    Yes, exactly. That's why its so stupid for them to hide my other email addresses from my friends. I listed them specifically because they are alternate means of contacting me. My personal email addresses were exposed to my friends, but when this change occurred they were hidden on my profile and only the facebook.com address was shown.
- jmagar 14y ago
  Your hiding it doesn't help though... your Facebook email address is <<username>>@facebook.com I don't see anyway to keep that secret.
  - djloche 14y ago
    It may not be secret, but if you choose to have the @facebook.com email address listed on your profile, it suggests that the @facebook.com email address is an appropriate email address to contact you at. I hid it from my contact information because facebook is not the best way to contact me and I don't want anyone to assume that it is because someone at facebook decided to see how many people don't do anything.

tubbo 14y ago

This is NOT shocking enough to be posted every fucking time you see a newspaper write about it.

instakill 14y ago

It seems that Facebook as a company has an OCD to keep changing shit. If not interfaces then API methods.

biafra 14y ago

Facebook has notifications for almost anything that happens on their site which might be interesting for me to know about. Why on earth do they not notify me about emails to my @facebook.com address?

valugi 14y ago

They did not change mine.