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[TeaEarleGreyHot]

FB is an operation with a very immature management style. And the ethics to match. The "email switcheroo" should not surprise anyone.

Especially not the fans over at Facebookworld.com

[xmitman]

I tried sending an email from another account I have to my facebook.com address and it doesn't show up. It seems that the system only allows email from known addresses that have Facebook accounts. So don't bother giving out that address to anyone. It is useless.

[RyanCooperdjy0]

I don't really find this all that annoying since they make it painfully easy to change. This would have been a lot more frustrating if they had made it display the @facebook.com email or nothing.

[rgmilley]

I guess they are trying to help people decide to switch to Google+. Thoroughly annoyed at another stupid change from these morons.

[schoonerman]

The change is part of Facebook's "the user should never leave Facebook" agenda.

[SFrawley]

Stupid Punks running the show and they don't have a clue!

If my family wasn't there, I'd be gone in a heartbeat. Nobody wastes my time like that so consistently like Facebook does, it seems.

[Bengt77]

RyanCooperdjy0, on 25 June 2012 - 01:13 PM, said:

I don't really find this all that annoying since they make it painfully easy to change. This would have been a lot more frustrating if they had made it display the @facebook.com email or nothing.

You mean you're okay with Facebook changing people's email addresses on their profile pages, without asking them first? You're okay with a company deciding for itself which of your information it displays or not, without you giving consent? I'm genuinely flabbergasted you are okay with that. To me, it's corporate practice from hell. Really, f*ck Facebook for this! It is that all my friends are on Facebook, or else this would indeed have been a perfect opportunity to switch to Google+...

[TammieStom]

Thanks a lot!!! One bit of info might be needed for people who access Facebook on a mobile App.

I use Facebook for iPad/iPhone about 85% of the time and my @facebook.com address does not show up. The email address that I see is the one I submitted. However, I then accessed FB by Safari on my iPad, and I'll be darned... The @facebook.com addy was the only email addy that showed!!

Again, thanks so much

[phdtop]

OK, here's another problem with Facebook -- its dizzying array of how it appears to me, to you, to friends... as shown by this article.

It says "1. Open Facebook in your browser, then head to your profile/Timeline (by clicking your name)."

First problem: my name appears in two places; which one should I click? They lead to different pages.

2. Under your photo, click About.

In both pages, there is no "About" under my photo -- or, for that matter, anywhere on the page(s).

3. Scroll down until you find the Contact Info box.

And where would that be?

Help!

[phdtop]

phdtop, on 26 June 2012 - 06:29 AM, said:

3. Scroll down until you find the Contact Info box.

And where would that be?

Help!

Well, I think I found another route to that page. I was able to make the changes as instructed, but although the little icons now indicate which preferred e-mail will show, and that the 59495985948@facebook.com gobbledygook will NOT show, I can't check to see whether the change has take effect, since I can't see an e-mail address anywhere in my profile!

Moreover, when I try to get rid of the gobbledygook address completely, by clicking Remove, I enter my password and then it tells me that there was an error removing the email!

Facebook needs a faceLIFT by people who know how to design an interface. Yuck.

[veggiedude]

I don't see this as an issue. Why would i want my real email address to be shown in the first place?

[Stewsburntmonkey]

veggiedude, on 26 June 2012 - 07:44 AM, said:

I don't see this as an issue. Why would i want my real email address to be shown in the first place?

You've never been forced to have an email address displayed, but many people found it useful to have their email address displayed (at least for friends) so people could easily contact them.

[Jasonmwa]

Bengt77, on 26 June 2012 - 02:42 AM, said:

RyanCooperdjy0, on 25 June 2012 - 01:13 PM, said:

I don't really find this all that annoying since they make it painfully easy to change. This would have been a lot more frustrating if they had made it display the @facebook.com email or nothing.

You mean you're okay with Facebook changing people's email addresses on their profile pages, without asking them first? You're okay with a company deciding for itself which of your information it displays or not, without you giving consent? I'm genuinely flabbergasted you are okay with that. To me, it's corporate practice from hell. Really, f*ck Facebook for this! It is that all my friends are on Facebook, or else this would indeed have been a perfect opportunity to switch to Google+...

I'm confused, why would you put information you don't want known on a SOCIAL website? I don't understand why people get so up in arms when information that they DID NOT have to supply is shared by a site they gave the info to. Around work, a person's secret is told to one person and yet everyone in the office knows it. If the person hadn't shared it, in ANY capacity socially, then it wouldn't have been let loose to the masses. Compare that to a social site and this is Facebook's fault?

I'm all for privacy, but getting upset that it's released when you first released it yourself is blaming someone else for your mistake.