Facebook draws user angry with email switch
Click 'Messages' on Facebook and then "Other" in the right sidebar and you might find emails missing from your Gmail or other personal and work accounts. Without giving you any warning or notification, Facebook last week changed your profile to hide any email addresses you've previously listed and instead show only your little-known "@facebook.com" address. Any messages sent to you or your @facebook.com address that wasn't sent from friends, friends of friends, or email addresses registered to their Facebook accounts ends up there, easily missed. Now Facebook's unauthorized change to your preferred contact info is auto-syncing with address books for some mobile devices, so people don't even realize they're not pinging your Gmail, they're sending messages to your Other black hole. But rather than apologize, Facebook has implied to ReadWriteWeb that users are merely confused. Yes, users are confused...because Facebook changed their contact info without consent!
Facebook draws user angry with email switch
(AP) — Facebook has changed your email address. That's how it appears after a quiet change in the way the company displays users' contact information.
Tue 26 Jun 12 from Phys.org
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Mon 2 Jul 12 from USA today
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Mon 2 Jul 12 from The Verge
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Mon 2 Jul 12 from Arstechnica
Auto-Sunk. Check Your Hidden Facebook ?Other? Inbox For Your Missing Emails
Click 'Messages' on Facebook and then "Other" in the right sidebar and you might find emails missing from your Gmail or other personal and work accounts. Without giving you any warning or notification, ...
Mon 2 Jul 12 from TechCrunch
Facebook faces far-reaching consequences for tampering with user email addresses
Last week, after adding new granular privacy controls for showing or hiding email addresses you've listed, Facebook hid every email address you've ever added to your profile. ...
Mon 2 Jul 12 from The Verge
Now Facebook tries to 'hijack' users' email addresses by forcing them to submit to own service Now Facebook tries to 'hijack' users' email addresses by forcing them to submit to own service
The social network with 900 million profiles, has taken it upon itself to change users' email addresses and replace it with one that ends in '@facebook.com'.
Tue 26 Jun 12 from Daily Mail
Facebook changes your email address without telling users, Tue 26 Jun 12 from Daily Mail
Facebook profile email address switch isn?t as evil as you think
Yes, Facebook swapped the email address that’s shown on your profile page. Some are saying that the move was made to bolster the site’s email-to-messaging functionality, and that’s ...
Tue 26 Jun 12 from Geek.com
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