geeteam Posted February 25, 2014 Share Posted February 25, 2014 So long @facebook.com – with its latest update Facebook is shutting down its email service after more than three years. The service never truly took off the ground and Facebook didn’t update it that much, seemingly favoring its Messenger service. Now Facebook Mail users are getting a notification letting them know that the service is shutting down and will be forwarding their emails to the primary provided email address on their accounts. This forwarding posses a potential problem though – since sending an email to someone’s Facebook email account will forward that email straight to their main email inbox, this could potentially be a huge hit for spammers as they can guess your Facebook email just by looking at your public Facebook username. Facebook admits that most people haven’t been using their Facebook email so will focus more on improving its mobile messaging experience. Source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Matt Posted February 25, 2014 Administrator Share Posted February 25, 2014 Goodbye FFB. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlexCross Posted February 25, 2014 Share Posted February 25, 2014 (edited) It will come the day when facebook itself will became unpopular, long time ago hi5 was popular, myspace and others, now they are just a shadow of what they were, facebook will follow the path too, nothing lasts forever. Edited February 25, 2014 by AlexCross Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonar Posted February 25, 2014 Share Posted February 25, 2014 It all counts... bit by bit Facebook will vanish :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anuseems Posted February 25, 2014 Share Posted February 25, 2014 (edited) Facebook said they are making the change because most people havent been using their Facebook e-mail address and they want to make it easier to view all messages in one place. Additionally, the change will allow them to focus on improving their mobile messaging experience.Its worth noting that message forwarding is enabled by default. Unfortunately, this means that someone can now reach your primary inbox simply by sending a message to your Facebook e-mail account. Such addresses are only visible to friends but as The Verge points out, its not difficult to figure out another persons address by plugging in their profile page URL before the @ symbol.http://www.theverge.com/2014/2/24/5443454/facebook-retires-its-email-serviceThe good news is that forwarding can be disabled completely, a move that will effectively shut down the service once and for all. Edited February 25, 2014 by anuseems Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geeteam Posted February 26, 2014 Author Share Posted February 26, 2014 Well of course Facebook will become unpopular earlier than we even think. Thanks @anuseems for the update... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oliverjia Posted February 26, 2014 Share Posted February 26, 2014 Facebook is a privacy-selling company. Never use it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjall Posted February 26, 2014 Share Posted February 26, 2014 the email was useless at first place Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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