Facebook Timeline Change Said to Affect E-Mail, Contacts - pattersoncalk1984

Facebook users upset active the e-mail addresses they listed on the social networking locate being suddenly changed have something else to stew about: Neutered call books and missing e-mail messages.

The latest gripe with Facebook to light up the blogosphere apparently affects people with mobile devices or other software program that synchronizes their come up to book with their Facebook contacts.

Last week, Facebook users learned the company quietly changed the e-mail addresses displayed on their Timeline pages to a @Facebook.com e-mail speak. On Twitter and in Facebook's community forums, users expressed outrage that Facebook seemingly made the change without letting them know first.

In real time there might be more cause for bear on. CNET's Violet Blue posted a slew of complaints and warnings about the new job from around the web.

1 Adobe employee wrote in her personal web log, "Today, a co-worker discovered that his liaison info for me had been silently updated to overwrite my work email address with my Facebook email address. He determined this only subsequently sending work emails to the wrong address. And even worse, the emails are not actually in my Facebook messages. I checked. They've vanished into the ether."

Apparently the e-mails were lost even though on Facebook she switched out the @Facebook computer address with her make up one.

Blue also asserts that "automatic altering of users' contacts without notification was, in fact, disturbingly actually built into Orchard apple tree's new iOS 6 Facebook integrating: Facebook for iOS will change computer address books without any admonition."

In fact, she points to a post on Cyberpunk News program in which ane someone using an iOS 6 preview complained that the primary netmail addresses of his or her contacts were changed.

Maybe then, but iOS 6 isn't receivable for release until dawdle, so my guess is Apple will take out any much problem. Unequal Facebook, Apple is commonly adept at keeping its nuzzle clean when it comes to privacy and keeping users elated.

Meantime, if you'rhenium upset about losing email you should inspect or remove anything that syncs your contacts with Facebook. And to change your netmail dea in Facebook, go you your Timeline, click "About," then the "Edit" link next to the "Contact Info" box.

It's unclear how widespread a trouble this is. I'm a heavy Google exploiter and whenever a change is successful with cardinal of my contacts it's synced betwixt my computing device and Samsung Galaxy Link phone. I haven't had any problems with lost e-get off and my Facebook treat was transformed just like everybody else's.

So is the whole matter being breathless out of proportionality? Or am I immune because I use Android 4.0?

Chime in, if you will. If you've had a problem, please share in the comments what happened every bit well as what apps or software you think might be convoluted.

One thing is clear: Facebook has ticked off users again away implementing a widespread change without bountiful clear notice. While the company said the e-mail change was not unannounced, its notice came away way of a four-time handout issued by Facebook in April.

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