If you have a Facebook account, now may be a good time to check the email address that is associated with it (located under “About” and “Contact Info”). Facebook has confirmed to TPM that it has begun automatically changing users’ default displayed emails to “@Facebook.com” email addresses, which Facebook provides for each user’s account.
As a Facebook spokesperson wrote to TPM: “As we announced back in April, we’ve been updating addresses on Facebook to make them consistent across our site.”
That seems like a bit of a shitty thing to do.
I’d be more okay with it if they did this only for people who didn’t already list an address. But it’s just ridiculous to overwrite the info that somebody already put there.
and, since that address is probably the one that’s going to get all the Facebook ad spam… fuck em. they can store the spam. i’ve turned off all their email notifications anyway.
My decision to ignore Facebook continues to pay dividends.