Yesterday I noticed a small change to my Facebook profile page. Where I once had my personal email address displayed in my contact info under the 'about' button I now had an @facebook.com address. I see this an attempt on the part of Facebook to have a larger presence in another area of our internet lives. This desire to take a larger chunk of the pie is not necessarily either a good or bad thing but I am not a fan of how they have gone about making this change with no warning or notification. I had specific reasons for having my personal email address available in my contact details for my friends to see and you might have as well.
Luckily changing it back is fairly simple and can be done in a few easy steps:
- Navigate to your profile page and click on the "About" button just below your profile picture in Timeline.
- Scroll down to the "Contact Info" section and hit "Edit". You should get a drop down like the one below.
- On the far right of the image click on the drop down menu next to the circles. You want to switch the setting for your personal and your @facebook.com email addresses so that your personal one has "display on timeline" selected and the @facebook.com address has "hidden from timeline" selected.
This should change things back so that once again an email address that you actually use is displayed.
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