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posted by LaminatorX on Wednesday February 26 2014, @09:00AM   Printer-friendly
from the And-nothing-of-value-was-lost dept.

lhsi writes:

"The BBC is reporting that starting in early March, Facebook is ending its @facebook.com e-mail system, due to a lack of use. E-mails sent to a users @facebook.com address will now be 'forwarded to the personal email address from which the member signed up for the site'.

If this is the e-mail address that is the personalised user URL followed by @facebook.com, does that mean that users will potentially be exposed to e-mail spam through it? The @facebook.com e-mails can be pieced together easily enough (and go to an 'Other' folder in the Facebook Messages area without notifying users so can currently be ignored), but actual e-mail addresses, including ones that could now have e-mails forwarded to, can be kept private. There is little information about this at the moment, even on the Facebook newsroom."

 
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  • (Score: 1) by cmn32480 on Wednesday February 26 2014, @08:37PM

    by cmn32480 (443) <reversethis-{moc.liamg} {ta} {08423nmc}> on Wednesday February 26 2014, @08:37PM (#7548) Journal

    Thanks to this announcement, there will be millions of people who suddenly start using this and then scream when it gets turned off.

    I had no idea it even existed.

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