The Man-in-the-middle attack or How Facebook took control of your facebook page.
Facebook doesn't give you choices. It's their way or the highway! They changed everyone's email address and designated what your Facebook email address would be, you didn't get an option of choosing your Facebook email address. They did let you use a "vanity" email address, but the real Facebook email address is the one they chose for you and it's really all numbers.
Facebook is trying to force its 900million users to switch to its own email service.
It is removing the personal email address displayed on an individual user’s profile pages and replacing it with a @facebook.com address – even if the member never uses it.
The social networking site’s email service was launched two years ago but has failed to take off, possibly because most people do not like having multiple mail accounts. Facebook wants to usurp existing email identities with their own to help drive up traffic to its site and lock users into its service. The problem is the lack of transparency – it has acted without asking for members’ permission first.’ Just like they did withe their Timeline feature.
The US company is under pressure to lift its revenues following a stock market flotation. Because emails sent to the @facebook address will appear on the site’s pages it will potentially boost page views and boost advertising sales.
The social network also launched a new feature this week which uses the GPS signal in cell phones to help you find friends - and potential new friends - nearby. The 'Friendshake' feature will allow you to make friends with people who are close by. The time-saving feature means that, if you meet a group of new people, you can all use this for one-touch friendship, rather than manually finding out each person's name and separately adding them.
It is not the first time Facebook has pulled a 'Big Brother' move on social network users. Anyone who uses Facebook is already turning over reams of sensitive personal information to large companies every day.
Hopefully their stock will continue to tank, but unfortunately it's likely to rise up, unless more Facebook users start unliking pages they liked and switch to Google+.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2164714/Facebook-tries-hijack-users-email-addresses.html
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