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Facebook replaces non-Facebook mail addresses on Timeline

Posted on June 26th, 2012 at 14:51 by John Sinteur in category: Privacy, Security -- Write a comment

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Over the weekend Mark Zuckerberg’s recently floated company began quietly displaying @Facebook email addresses on all of its users’ Timelines.

The move immediately sparked anger from Facebookers, who complained that their third party email account names – such as Gmail or Hotmail – had been unceremoniously replaced without their say-so on the site.

As a result people may reply to your facebook email instead of YOUR email. A perfect man-in-the-middle attack on your mail

  1. Desiato on June 26th, 2012 at 17:50:

    They still haven’t learned that making changes behind their users’ backs isn’t going to be popular. Tone-deaf.

  2. Desiato on June 26th, 2012 at 18:04:

    Even better, from HackerNews comments:

    This morning my mother was complaining that many of the email addresses in her Droid Razr contacts had been replaced with Facebook ones. It would seem the Facebook app had been populating her address book with emails and contact photos, and decided to migrate all her Facebook-using contacts over to this convenient new system. That seems like a much greater controversy to me than Facebook hiding people’s email addresses.

    And people saying that messages sent to the facebook.com address end up in an “Other” messages folder that no one has a habit of looking in.

    Niiiiiiice.

  3. Sue W on June 27th, 2012 at 3:29:

    Leaping over lamniformes.

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