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NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- If you're a Facebook user, you have a @facebook.com email address, whether you use it or not. Facebook is now automatically posting those addresses to users' profiles and displaying them as the default email address.

[money.cnn.com]

yet another reason to avoid facebook...

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If I've never looked at or even knew about my facebook.com email addy, then quite frankly they can do with it what they want. Why should I care?
It's not as if anyone I know will try to email me using it.

Sure I'm wrong and that the sky has fallen, but I don't feel the repercussions...yet!

Does that email addy come with a facebook account or do you have to go outta your way to set it up? I'll never use it as, like a few other people on the net, I have another email address but I may want to put some bad info into my FB account just to mess with them if it's an option.

sounds like it's there by default. Someone else posted a few days ago here on MRF that he discovered that he had a facebook email he didn't know about.

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Oh, and when I went to confirm all my privacy settings, I noticed that...lucky me...I have a Facebook email account that I never knew about.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/25/2012 06:35PM by space-time.

Not that it's a super workaround, but you can hide it from view by the masses.

I assume that one can send email through FB (instead of using a mail app or wwwmail) - if not now, then soon. THOSE emails will have the FB addy as the return address and eventually, everyone will know you by your new FB addy - that's how I got mom weened from ISP based email address. I just set up her mail with the gmail return address and eventually the ISP based ones just stopped coming...

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sounds like it's there by default. Someone else posted a few days ago here on MRF that he discovered that he had a facebook email he didn't know about.

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Oh, and when I went to confirm all my privacy settings, I noticed that...lucky me...I have a Facebook email account that I never knew about.

Well, then I'll just set up Lojack on my regular email address and get Herr Zuckerberg in the face with a loquat pie.

I don't understand the title of this thread. Having facebook assign me an facebook-based email address does not "hijack your email address."

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Yeah, I don't see the big deal or make the association.

It isn't about merely assigning an address. They default to displaying an email address that's their own instead of your own; the intention being that theirs becomes your go-to account for future communication, to which they will, no doubt, have access and will use for additional marketing purposes.

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I don't understand the title of this thread. Having facebook assign me an facebook-based email address does not "hijack your email address."

Facebook replaces users' e-mails with site-specific address

[www.usatoday.com]

Honestly, I would prefer this to the alternative of my real-world address being used on Facebook...if I had a Facebook account.

I did notice this Saturday on my wife's FB account.

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I don't understand the title of this thread. Having facebook assign me an facebook-based email address does not "hijack your email address."

Facebook replaces users' e-mails with site-specific address

[www.usatoday.com]

correct. which is why i said yes and no.

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It seems like every day there's yet another reason I'm glad I don't have a FB account.

mostly it doesn't bother me, i adjust my settings and delete apps and don't accept invitiations to thinks i'm not interested in.

I have a FB account, mostly to read posts by family members. I use a Yahoo account that is separate from personal and business email. If anyone tries to contact me via some new FB email address, I won't get it, unless they forward it. Or will such email show up if I log in to FB? In that case, I must remember not to reply.

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I don't understand the title of this thread. Having facebook assign me an facebook-based email address does not "hijack your email address."

Some people like to get their panties in a bunch...I see this as an anti-spam measure-your real email address isn't revealed to the masses

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I don't understand the title of this thread. Having facebook assign me an facebook-based email address does not "hijack your email address."

Some people like to get their panties in a bunch...I see this as an anti-spam measure-your real email address isn't revealed to the masses

If facebook could become the repository for all spam email, terrific, but I'm pretty sure Mark Anthony has it right; "It isn't about merely assigning an address. They default to displaying an email address that's their own instead of your own; the intention being that theirs becomes your go-to account for future communication, to which they will, no doubt, have access and will use for additional marketing purposes."

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Some people like to get their panties in a bunch...I see this as an anti-spam measure-your real email address isn't revealed to the masses

if you have paid attention to your privacy settings your email address is only viewable to those on your friends list who you allow to see it. whether or not they are a mass i guess depends on how many FB friends you have.

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Not that it's a super workaround, but you can hide it from view by the masses.

if you have paid attention to your privacy settings your email address is only viewable to those on your friends list who you allow to see it. whether or not they are a mass i guess depends on how many FB friends you have.


This is why I won't FB:

"We basically defaulted to show your Facebook address as we rolled this out, just to keep it consistent for everyone," said Meredith Chin, Facebook's manager of product communications...

Users can change the setting and show whatever email address they like, but by default, the visible address will be @facebook.com.

Chin couldn't elaborate on why Facebook didn't communicate the email change before it happened.


So what have we learned from this article...

The email address you've put in FB and hidden has been or will be hijacked, without your permission, replaced with an FB email address, then exposed to the Internet, again, and again without your knowledge or permission.

Anybody who wants to contact you now thinks that they're to use this new address?

Yeah, right.


Some people like to get their panties in a bunch...

You mean like thinking being issued a corporate cellphone means the employees' movements will be tracked around the clock?

This is a real concern. It's not like your bank diverting your savings into a money market account without your knowledge ("Didn't you read the fine print we sent with your monthly statement?) but it means that:

a) FB is constantly looking for ways to F you for their benefit
b) FB settings must be check very frequently to insure they haven't changed your settings
c) FB will offer a weak explanation that's not quite an apology
d) FB will offer a free bumper sticker - I got ZUCKED!

If you're iSavvy and enjoy FB, rock on. But I really hate the way Big Z is trying to zuck-over the unwary. It's not always their fault.


How to fix it: Users who want to stop the @facebook.com address from showing up on their profiles can do so by editing their "Contact Info" sections.

You have two options for any email addresses associated with your Facebook profile: "shown on Timeline" or "hidden from Timeline." By default, Facebook is setting your @facebook.com address to be "shown on Timeline" and hiding the rest. To change that, switch your @facebook.com email address to be "hidden from Timeline," and set a different email to be "shown on Timeline."

Shame on Aunt Martha for not figuring that out for herself.

And shame on Meredith. I don't think she really understands the concept of communication.

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FB doesn't take over your own email address, right?

like change the password, or start sending messages from it?

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FB doesn't take over your own email address, right?

like change the password, or start sending messages from it?

not yet.

Whatever. You are allowed to change the name for the @facebook dot com just once, so I changed mine to iwontreadthese.

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is zuck_fukerberg@facebook.com taken?

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They don't "replace" your email address, they display the facebook address instead of the one you had been displaying.

My email address has always been hidden. When I saw this thread, I went onto FB and hid the Facebook email address, too. Now I have two email addresses that nobody can see. Whatever.

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I don't understand the title of this thread. Having facebook assign me an facebook-based email address does not "hijack your email address."

Facebook replaces users' e-mails with site-specific address

[www.usatoday.com]

It's not a replacement. It's an add-on. You don't have to display it. You don't have to use it. The article is just plain wrong.

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So someone who has no idea what "hijacking" an email account means writes an article and it is spread all over the internet and lands here on the MR forum. I would have expected folks here to know that "hijacking" an email account means someone has taken over your email account. At the very least, it means that someone is using your account name to send spam and/or viruses. It does NOT mean that someone has added an email address to your FB account while leaving your other email account untouched.

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They don't "replace" your email address, they display the facebook address instead of the one you had been displaying.

So if someone hasn't already hidden their previous default address, both addresses are shown?

Any way it's couched, I don't need somebody saying "RAM has hidden his email address so here's another way to get in contact and we've made it available for anybody to use, so hurry, because since his first address is hidden, this one will likely follow suit."

And Zuck could have chosen to alert the membership about the changes. And again, chose not to.

That Zucks.

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must suffer with him.

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An armed society is a polite society.
And hope is a lousy defense.

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Emails to the FB address end up in a folder on FB called "Other".

The bad thing is if you don't know to check the "Other" folder, you will never know you have gotten email through FB, nor will you see it. So if someone you know uses it, you may never know about it.

On the other hand, this means that if you don't want email that was sent through the FB email address, simply avoid the "Other" folder (which contains messages that are not from Friends or Friends of Friends) and you won't even have to acknowledge the existence of a FB email address.

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