| Title | Facebook Ending "@facebook.com" Email System | |
| Date | Wednesday February 26 2014, @09:00AM | |
| Author | LaminatorX | |
| Topic | ||
| 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."
| Links |
printed from SoylentNews, Facebook Ending "@facebook.com" Email System on 2024-04-19 06:36:52