25th June 2012

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theatlantic: Facebook Desperately Reminds Us That Facebook Email Still Exists In a pushy move, Facebook just made the Facebook email address you probably didn’t even know you had the default email address on your timeline, hoping to push users to its messaging service. We find this confusing, or rather, annoying for the following reasons: Who uses Facebook messages as their primary email address? Nobody. So it doesn’t deserve the primary spot. If someone has found that contact information, this person is already on Facebook, why don’t they just send a message that way? Read more. [Image: Rebecca Greenfield]

theatlantic:

Facebook Desperately Reminds Us That Facebook Email Still Exists

In a pushy move, Facebook just made the Facebook email address you probably didn’t even know you had the default email address on your timeline, hoping to push users to its messaging service. We find this confusing, or rather, annoying for the following reasons:

  • Who uses Facebook messages as their primary email address? Nobody. So it doesn’t deserve the primary spot.
  • If someone has found that contact information, this person is already on Facebook, why don’t they just send a message that way?

Read more. [Image: Rebecca Greenfield]

Reblogged from The Atlantic
  1. steckles reblogged this from the-grip-of-a-hurricane and added:
    Definitely just went and changed my contact info haha
  2. thoughtcontainment reblogged this from nomoretexasgovernorsforpresident and added:
    Well, I don’t think The Atlantic gets it, either. The reason for FB doing this is not just to be annoying, it’s so that,...
  3. nomoretexasgovernorsforpresident reblogged this from theatlantic
  4. relicsatheart reblogged this from theatlantic and added:
    You can’t delete it either. You can only hide it.
  5. wizardblue reblogged this from theatlantic
  6. solarpowerspork reblogged this from littletinyfish
  7. sswslitinmotion reblogged this from theatlantic and added:
    page to make sure if you have your preferred (if any) e-mail address up…
  8. lastyearsfad reblogged this from nirak and added:
    “OH NO! I NEED MY REAL EMAIL TO BE PUBLIC ON MY FACEBOOK PAGE! HOW DARE FACEBOOK SHARE LESS INFORMATION ABOUT ME!”...
  9. littletinyfish reblogged this from theatlantic and added:
    Hey, you guys, Facebook made another dick move. Make sure you go back and change your email back to the one you actually...
  10. halvorsen reblogged this from theatlantic and added:
    This was an incredibly frustrating discovery last week when I was actually trying to track down a bunch of email...
  11. the-grip-of-a-hurricane reblogged this from theatlantic and added:
    oh god i just checked, they actually did. i didnt even know i had a facebook email address.
  12. irosenthal reblogged this from theatlantic and added:
    Changed mine back this morning. Why does Facebook insist on being so creepy? People keep track of these things ya know.
  13. muhneeque reblogged this from notplatesnotcups
  14. fieldnotesfromabroad reblogged this from theatlantic
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  18. randomness-from-thisoldguy reblogged this from theatlantic and added:
    [for my FB friends-pay attention!]
  19. teratocybernetics reblogged this from sunfell