Facebook clearly isn’t done tinkering with their user’s experience. Without warning and without consent, FB has changed the default contact email for every user to their Facebook email. They went so far as to also make the old contact email hidden from view on the Timeline. Folks with a vanity url will find their new email is that url @facebook.com. Peeps that didn’t bother to give their profile a spiffy name will have the random number associated to their profile by Facebook as their email addy. The change went into effect and the social network didn’t even bother to give folks a heads up that the change happened. No warning, no notification? I call shenanigans Facebook!

Didn’t know you had a Facebook email? Plenty of folks didn’t either and that’s part of the reason FB did their ninja change. The email service was originally debuted to compete with Google’s Gmail but instead has turned into a dust bin of a messaging arena. Most people seem to either stick to the tried and true Yahoo or the aforementioned GMail. The ‘book must be fairly desperate to force people to stay on the network if they pulled this latest stunt.

It’s an easy fix to change back to your preferred email and even hide that ridiculous Facebook email but the real problem is having to do it. Bad form Facebook, bad form indeed! Let’s hear it geeks! Does it kinds feel like rape, having that new addy forced upon you? Burn those comments up!

 

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8 Comments

1.   RagingClaw   |  Monday, 25 June 2012 at 4:08 PM

   doesnt surprise me at all, facebook doesnt really seem to care about anything other than ad revenue. also, yeah.. i didnt know i had a facebook email, and i really dont want one.

   
2.   Rodney Varney   |  Monday, 25 June 2012 at 4:49 PM

   Five minutes and, I’m already over the fact that FB decided to change email accounts that most people didn’t even know existed. So, to answer your question… No. Doesn’t feel like rape to me. 
   I’m going to guess you’ve never been the victim or, emotionally close to someone that has been a victim of rape.

   
3.   Zx   |  Monday, 25 June 2012 at 5:45 PM

   They said they were going to do this back in April.

   
4.   Snakeater3000   |  Tuesday, 26 June 2012 at 10:32 AM

   go off and cry somewhere in a corner and drown in your own puddle of political correctness. tired of emotional douche bags like you Rodney

   
5.   Rodney Varney   |  Wednesday, 27 June 2012 at 6:18 PM

   So sorry to upset you with my “emotions”. Actually, I’m sure Logan used the term rape to get an emotional response. Had I not responded to it, it would have made him sad. So, I answered the question he asked. I didn’t chastise him for using it, I didn’t tell him he shouldn’t, I just figured someone that has (or, has been emotionally close to someone that has) been a victim of rape would not even think to make that comparison. Oh, yeah… Cadbury Cream Eggs are delicious. 

   
6.   LoganDX   |  Wednesday, 27 June 2012 at 9:20 PM

   Actually Rodney, I did not use it to get an emotional response out of you or anybody else for that fact. The definition of rape has evolved, it can also describe something forced upon oneself, which is how I used it. Because you jumped to assumptions, I’ll let you in on a little fact: I am very close, emotionally, to some one who was physically raped. Assumptions are dangerous things, they’re based less on any facts and more on pre-existing emotions and prejudices.

   
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