Monday, June 25, 2012

Status update! Facebook has changed YOUR email address... without telling 900million users

If you haven't looked closely at your Facebook contact information in a while, then it may come as a surprise.

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'.

The changeover happened today, with each individual's personal email account being hidden in place of the one Facebook thinks you should use.

Secret switch: Facebook hid the email addresses of its 900 million users today and replaced them with a generic @facebook.com

Secret switch: Facebook hid the email addresses of its 900 million users today and replaced them with a generic @facebook.com

It means that anyone who searches for you on Facebook and wanted to send an email will now only be able to see @facebook.com - unless you manually revert.

This means the email will come via Facebook messages instead of another account.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2164714/Facebook-changes-email-address-telling-users.html#ixzz1yrlfO8R8

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