I'm OK with FB not having my real email. And FB peeps too. So I use a unique one and keep it set to Only Me. I really don't like FB forcing me to use FB mail I never asked for though. - Tinfoil 2.0 from iPhone

Exactly what Tinfoil said. - Rochelle

Yeah, a friend of mine on FB (who also posted this) said it was completely unethical for FB to change your email address without your prior knowledge/approval. I do agree with that but, c'mon... how many unethical things is FB doing already anyway? Most times, this kinda shit doesn't surprise me. - Zulema ❧ spicy cocoa tart

No, unfortunately it doesn't surprise me either. But I get especially irked when things change such that you have to visit your settings to restore it to what it was. FB knows very well that most people won't notice or mess with it. - Tinfoil 2.0 from iPhone

^I bet they count on people not noticing! - Zulema ❧ spicy cocoa tart

Would a shorter address have killed them? The can't afford facebook@bite.me? - Micah

I'd be interested to know of all the people angry about this, what's the ratio between people who are genuinely angry about this vs those who just missed the announcement back in April http://newsroom.fb.com/News... and believe Facebook just imposed this email address on them - Johnny

I don't know about that Johnny, but to me this adds insult to injury. First, force a new and unwanted (few people actually use it) email address on people, and now change their default settings on them. - Tinfoil 2.0 from iPhone

As if the auto-suggest photo tagging isn't frightening enough! - Zulema ❧ spicy cocoa tart from Android

You can opt out of face suggest, but you can't opt out of facial recognition. There is no privacy setting to protect you from Facebook itself. - Tinfoil 2.0 from iPhone

The Lone Ranger found a way. Sorta. - Micah

I have it so I have to approve any photos tagged of me and remove any that aren't actually a photo of me. I hate when tagging is abused. - Zulema ❧ spicy cocoa tart from Android

FB should get off their duffs and add a feature to let me make someone's computer slap him/her whenever s/he tags one of my relatives in a photo that advertises shoes. - MiniMage

I am really amazed that I seem to be the only one that sees this for what the spammers will see it as: an incredible opportunity to send out tons highly targeted spam emails, tailored to a users product preferences. Imagine you have a website that sells cheap counterfeit goods and you want the maximum return on your spamming campaign. For each fake product you sell on your site, visit the official fan page of the real product. For each post on their wall, scrape the profile URLs for every like and comment that appears there. Toss out all duplicates. Extract the usernames from the urls. Attach "@facebook.com" to the end of them. Send your targeted emails to the lovers of the actual products, offering them incredible deals on the products they love. Repeat. See,before the email address was an option, now it is not. Facebook gave it to you whether you wanted it or not, planned to use it or not. And hiding the email address from your profile doesn't delete it from existence, doesn't stop anyone from using it to send you mail, and it only helps the spammers to be more effective in their spamming. - April Russo

Interesting point, April. I wonder why this has been slow to catch on? I suppose FB has strong detectors for high-volume or otherwise atypical senders, particularly from an outside sender. - Tinfoil 2.0 from iPhone

Also... device integration looks like a huge Trojan Horse for Facebook to implant their alien seed into our personal device address books: "Apple iOS 6 and the Facebook email address lock-in?" http://m.zdnet.com/blog... This is looking very much like a MITM (man-in-the-middle) attack as one blogger characterized it: http://blog.gerv.net/2012... Yet another reason for me to dislike and avoid contact syncing (the main one of course being that you violate your friends' privacy when you cough up their personal details to FB, Google, etc.) - Tinfoil 2.0 from iPhone

My contact book is completely FUBAR since Google+ vomited every single circled contact into it. I have a TON of "unknown" entries with avatars or blank avatars with only a link to their G+ profile. I'm always overwhelmed when I try to clean it up. >:[ - Zulema ❧ spicy cocoa tart from Android

Sophos agrees with me about the huge spam wave that could be coming soon, but they didn't mentioned how targeted it could be. I guess they didn't think of that one. http://www.eweek.com/c... - April Russo

Johnny - an announcement on a site is not the same as a pop-up (which they do with every other dang thing they want me to use). If you're not making such changes obvious to the user, it's sneaky. No less than we should expect from FB, but still subpar. *shrug* - ωαřмaiden ❤Marrit Woman❤

Another article I read this morning stated that if you have your FB contacts synced with your phone you *might* lose your contact's' actual email addresses since it will replace it with the FB email address. - Zulema ❧ spicy cocoa tart

"Facebook e-mail mess: Address books altered; e-mail lost" http://m.cnet.com/news... - Tinfoil 2.0 from iPhone

It hasn't happened on my mobile address book yet and I do have syncing turned on so I can get avatars for contacts. That's scary, though. Very scary. - Zulema ❧ spicy cocoa tart from Android