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I had a hidden email. They added an unhidden facebook.com email address for me. I've just gone and hid it.



Your facebook.com email address was exposed with the same permissions as your profile. My personal email is still visible to my friends only, and my facebook.com address is exposed to only me when I check just now.

Also anyone who can see your profile knows your facebook.com address already, as it is the same as the URL to your profile.


Yes, exactly. That's why its so stupid for them to hide my other email addresses from my friends. I listed them specifically because they are alternate means of contacting me.

My personal email addresses were exposed to my friends, but when this change occurred they were hidden on my profile and only the facebook.com address was shown.


Your hiding it doesn't help though... your Facebook email address is <<username>>@facebook.com

I don't see anyway to keep that secret.


It may not be secret, but if you choose to have the @facebook.com email address listed on your profile, it suggests that the @facebook.com email address is an appropriate email address to contact you at. I hid it from my contact information because facebook is not the best way to contact me and I don't want anyone to assume that it is because someone at facebook decided to see how many people don't do anything.




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