Status update! Facebook has changed YOUR email address... without telling 900million users
f 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.
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.
Technology blogs lit up after outraged users noticed the change had occurred.
'Don’t do this again,' wrote Gizmodo while Forbes.com declared it 'presumptuous'.
Facebook claimed the change is to protect users' privacy and security by not displaying a personal email address but the site's more generic one.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2164714/Facebook-changes-email-address-telling-users.html
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yep mine has been changed and I live in montreal so what is this soppose to mean?
Just make sure you make your own entry on your details IE name (they added number tto some of my friends ) and email Mine had been diverted to another made by facebook and 60 other people have had the same reported to my website in just 4 hours So i would tread with care and go through all your personal detaials and make sure YOU entered where the emails are to go to and your sign in name has no add on to it
Namaste
Dave
good point but i have about 15 in form US who have had to change So please ask some one near you or get confirmation form other All others here in teh caribbean have had to change as we are linked under ground to Puerto Rice ( US) All the others are from Europe and they all had to change
I found an additional email on my account plus new numbers at the back of my sign in name which i had to change and sign in twice to acctivate ,,Now all numbers on my facebook are all chosen by me
Please double check all routes
Many thanks for taking this seriously
Namaste
Dave