Send E-Mails To People Without Knowing Their E-Mail Address Via Facebook

Last year, Facebook stopped supporting their @facebook.com e-mail function. Since then, all of the e-mails sent to that particular e-mail address, would be forwarded to your primary e-mail address. As you know, you can easily look up someone on Facebook. So using this tool, you can send an e-mail to anyones private e-mail address.

Facebooks e-mail service

In 2010, Facebook announced a new feature: Facebook e-mail addresses. This meant that you could receive e-mails in a regular e-mail client such as Gmail or Outlook, but now in your Facebook Inbox. Back then, your e-mail address was created based on some weird algorithm. Basically, it was your name separated by dots and some numbers added behind it. It looked like this
john.doe.75@facebook.com
The number differs from how much names there are identical to yours. As you probably know, no one used this function. After four years, Facebook stopped providing this service. As a solution, they are now forwarding every e-mail that’s being sent to this Facebook e-mail address to your private e-mail address that you sign in with. And that’s the source of privacy problems.

What’s the problem?

The problem is Facebook used this algorithm, that created the e-mail addresses, to make the links of your Facebook profiles. To continue with our example, John Doe’s Facebook link looked like this:
Facebook.com/john.doe.75
Since a lot of people don’t care about their Facebook link, they still use the same Facebook profile link created a couple of years. This means that when people (whether they are friends with you or not) land on your Facebook page, they can easily send e-mails to your private e-mail. Which you may not like.

How can you solve this?

Go to your general settings of Facebook, and watch for the option ‘username’. Change your username to anything you like that’s different from your existing username. Watch out, you can only change this once.

Not everyone is affected

Some do not experience this, since they opted out of the program a long time ago. Others, who signed up on Facebook after the end date of Facebook e-mail, don’t have this problem.