Did you notice FB changed your email?

[kranky]

Apparently Facebook has changed all user's email addresses to a facebook.com email in their contact info while hiding all other email addresses. Guess they didn't like how people could communicate independently without FB being able to scan the information to resell.

They give you a way to change it back, though.

 

[Corporate Thug]

the email linked my FB account is my spam email account...I don't think I've checked it more than 3 times this year.

 

[amdhunter]

That's so cool. You mean I have an @facebook email. This will make me so popular.

 

[mugs]

I see this as less nefarious - it protects people who aren't so smart with their security settings.

I don't know if Facebook scans your private messages, but I know they get a lot more valuable information about you a lot more easily from what you do publicly on Facebook. I'm not sure it would be worth the effort to scan your private messages.

 

[lxskllr]

That's so cool. You mean I have an @facebook email. This will make me so popular.

 

[BoberFett]

Has anybody actually tried to use it?

Send yourself an email at this @facebook.com address and it will show up as a Facebook message. Replies to that message show up in the message history, and get sent to the email address that originally sent the email.

This really isn't a nefarious plot. It's actually not a terrible idea. If you don't want Facebook to see a conversation, don't use the Faceook address.

 

[Newbian]

I didn't reveal my email through facebook as that's a great way to advertise to the spammers to begin with.

 

[Kev]

has anyone noticed facebook keeps shoving these "your friend likes X" ads into the news feed? For example, during the NBA finals it kept telling me my friends "like" NBA and basically shows an obnoxiously huge ad for the NBA. It happens for a lot of other things too. It's obnoxious and unhideable. It's starting to annoy me to the point that I don't want to read the news feed anymore.

 

[T_Yamamoto]

:thumbsup:

 

[Ns1]

I see this as less nefarious - it protects people who aren't so smart with their security settings.

I don't know if Facebook scans your private messages, but I know they get a lot more valuable information about you a lot more easily from what you do publicly on Facebook. I'm not sure it would be worth the effort to scan your private messages.

this, seems like a way to hide your real email address to me.

 

[mmntech]

I keep getting the feeling that Facebook is on life support. First the plunge in stock price (since it was way overvalued) and now these "new features". Things nobody really wanted or needed. I'm seeing the number of my friends who actively use it slowly dwindle. My only friend left that actively posts daily is just using it to promote her business.

I'm just pulling these numbers out my ass but I give FB two years tops before it joins Myspace and Friendster is social networking hell. It's all about Twitter now.

 

[Ns1]

I'm just pulling these numbers out my ass but I give FB two years tops before it joins Myspace and Friendster is social networking hell. It's all about Twitter now.

consumer standpoint: twitter sucks

business standpoint: what is twitters business model aka how do they make money?

 

[Red Squirrel]

I noticed I have two. My main email and the new facebook one. I made sure both are hidden from the profile.

 

[MotionMan]

The @facebook.com e-mail address is painfully useless at this point. Maybe if they opened it up so you could use POP or IMAP, people might actually use it (but I doubt it).

For some people, the Internet consists of Facebook and their aol.com e-mail. Imagine their joy if they could combine their use of their e-mail and Facebook!

MotionMan

 

[SirStev0]

Can't wait to get even more facebook emails.

 

[mmntech]

consumer standpoint: twitter sucks

business standpoint: what is twitters business model aka how do they make money?

Twitter makes money the same way Facebook does. They're a data service that compiles information to sell to advertisers. Not that I like it. As someone who works in the media though, it's an invaluable service. It allows me to instantly see what my competitors, colleagues, and viewers are talking about. What I don't get from traffic cams, I get from Twitter. Police tweet collisions, gov't tweets construction. Viewers tweet things I can't see or just happened. It's a big thing for me.

 

[RbSX]

We just got fuckerberged!

 

[Newbian]

Twitter makes money the same way Facebook does. They're a data service that compiles information to sell to advertisers. Not that I like it. As someone who works in the media though, it's an invaluable service. It allows me to instantly see what my competitors, colleagues, and viewers are talking about. What I don't get from traffic cams, I get from Twitter. Police tweet collisions, gov't tweets construction. Viewers tweet things I can't see or just happened. It's a big thing for me.

They do sell facebook credits and take a 30% cut from the games when they are used in one so at least they actually make some money that way.

 

[Sluggo]

That's so cool. You mean I have an @facebook email. This will make me so popular.

Did you really have any illusions that you could become less popular?