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#1 Terryala

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Posted 26 June 2012 - 03:02 PM

What you need to know about Facebook sneakily swapping users' default email addresses to @facebook.com

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by Graham Cluley on June 26, 2012 |

Filed Under: Featured, Malware, Privacy, Social networks, Spam

Have you checked the contact information you list on your Facebook profile?

Chances are that it's now listing an @facebook.com email contact address for you.

You can thank Facebook for making that change without telling you.

Back in April, Facebook quietly announced that it would be giving users @facebook.com email addresses so that they matched their public username (used as the URL for users' profile pages).


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