Hey , here ’s something really stupid and annoying : Facebook abruptly switched everyone ’s default electronic mail savoir-faire to the @facebook.com account you ’ve never used . Here ’s how to switch back Facebook ’s obnoxious overreach right now . So people can in reality , you know , contact you .
Remember long , long ago , when Facebook set up a Facebook electronic mail system and then nobody used it ? That ’s fine — it was always just an alternative you were more than welcome to completely ignore . And we did , because we already had Gmail and work inboxes , and did n’t need yet another . If our champion want to email us , they could just direct to our visibility and have choice .
Not today ! If you go to your visibility ( or anyone else ’s ) , you ’ll see the @facebook.com e-mail accounting list — which just send on to your Facebook messages inbox — and none of your others . They ’ve all been cover in a jambon - handed seek to make the Facebook inbox relevant .
Luckily , it ’s easy to change by reversal this dopey move . Go to your Timeline . Click about , under your middleman info . Scroll down to “ Contact Info ” and tally edit . Switch all of the cross out circle symbols to a full roach for each inbox you require visible on your visibility . If you do n’t require @facebook.com to show up , switch it from a full band ( “ Shown on Timeline ” ) to crossed out ( “ hide from Timeline ” ) . This is also a just opportunity to break your privacy setting and make certain your various inboxes are seeable only to friendlies . Hit save .
Facebook : do n’t do this again . [ Forbes ]
Update : A Facebook spokespersonprovidedthe following non - explanation to Reuters :
As we announced back in April , we ’ve been updating address on Facebook to make them consistent across our site .
In addition to everyone receiving an address , we ’re also rolling out a Modern context that devote people the pick to decide which addresses they want to show on their timelines .
Ever since the launch of timeline , people have had the ability to insure what office they require to show or veil on their own timelines , and today we ’re extending that to other information they mail , starting with the Facebook name and address .
Facebook , it ’s probably secure to say that the style we all had our things before was the “ option ” we made about “ which computer address … show on [ our ] timeline . ” This was n’t about choice — in fact , it was the opposite . You take for us .
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