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In response to "Unless I'm misunderstanding, why wouldn't you want them to show an @facebook.com email instead of your own personal? -- nm" by JaxSean

Because Facebook unilaterally decided that the Facebook email would be shown by default AND supplant your personal

Posted by TWuG Jun 25 '12, 12:02

email.

So they decided that a Facebook email that you may not even have known you had would now be your default contact email on your profile even if you had another email listed on your profile.

It was yet another default to "show everyone" and another decision made for the user without telling the user.

They treat my info like it's theirs which is why I have very very little info there anymore.

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Not sure if anyone else noticed but at least on mine the @facebook.com email address is set to "Only Me" so it's not even visible -- nm - oblique Jun 25, 12:06 3
- I have no @facebook listed at all. (I have nothing public.) -- nm - b. Jun 25, 12:21 1
  - oh, it is there if I drill-down; but totally not a worry, woo. -- nm - b. Jun 25, 12:28
- I think it went off whatever your other email was set as. So if that was public, the FB email would be public. -- nm - TWuG Jun 25, 12:18

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