Facebook changes user email ids to @facebook.com

Facebook has changed email address for users on the site. If you look into your info, you will see that the email address will be displayed as your name@facebook.com

Facebook replaced the email address users chose when they signed up with a facebook.com address. The Facebook email accounts allow users to communicate with outside email addresses via Facebook.

Users are free to restore their former email addresses. In an email, Facebook spokeswoman Jillian Stefanki said the site is also rolling out a setting that allows people to decide which email addresses to show on their pages.

The company said in a statement in April that it was "updating addresses on Facebook to make them consistent across our site."

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The latest move has caused an outcry with tech pundits questioning the logic behind the move. So how will this new 'email' work. According to this ZDNet blog Currently, you can only receive emails to your Facebook email address. Emails sent to your Facebook email will show up in either your "Messages" folder or your "Other" folder.

The other folder is where you receive messages from random strangers on Facebook. For now, @facebook.com just seems unnecessary and unfairly forced on users.

According to Josh Constine at TechCrunch, this latest move will only annoy users even though its been rolled out under the garb of protecting user privacy and ensuring that random people don't end up emailing you.

Facebook's attempt at email is getting panned everywhere. The most important question being what purpose will it serve? Users can go their timeline and privacy settings and change their primary email id back to what it was. You also have the option of hiding it from random strangers by setting privacy settings to just friends.

Facebook's new email might just make spamming even worse on the site with users finding that their Other inbox filled with junk messages.

With inputs from AP