Will Spaetzel

Without asking for permission, Facebook has changed users’ listed email address to one ending in “@facebook.com.”

The changed was discovered Saturday, and has resulted in either users having their @facebook.com address being listed or simply having all of their other addresses be hidden, as happened in my case.

I ordinarily don’t get riled up over Facebook changes. But this is pretty ridiculous. Facebook is now hiding the e-mail addresses that people chose to share with their friends, and replacing it with an @facebook.com address instead. This address just goes to the Facebook messages, it doesn’t send a real e-mail.

If I want to send an e-mail, I don’t want it to go to Facebook, I want it to go to your inbox. If someone chose to share their e-mail address, it should stay that way.