How Do I Register An Email Address With Facebook Login

Facebook, you've done it once again!

In its continuing endeavour to give users fresh textile to complain about, Facebook made a stealthy change to the profile page on Mon. Your primary email address is now, by default, listed as your @facebook.com address; if you desire to display a different default email accost, yous have to manually change it, a procedure that requires approximately 12 seconds of clicking on a computer.

As usual, Facebook users responded past flipping out across any reasonable measure, knocking over vending machines, tying bandanas around their foreheads and setting their crops on burn down (in the digital sense).

But let's accept a step back for a second hither, and enquire a more elementary question: What the heck is your @facebook.com e-mail address, and what is it used for?

It's an email address for your Facebook letters, basically. Facebook has long striven to make its Facebook Letters hub a Hotmail or Gmail competitor. It offers individual Messenger applications for both the desktop and the smartphone; its gyre-out of @facebook.com email addresses was a further push to make Facebook your master channel of communication. Your electronic mail address was chosen for you and is simply *username*@facebook.com, where your username is whatever comes after "facebook.com/" on your personal profile page.

So, for case, you tin find me at facebook.com/gilbertjasono; that means my Facebook email is gilbertjasono@facebook.com. (Though you were automatically assigned ane, you tin can change your public Facebook ID in one case here; mine (gilbertjasono) is just my last name, my first name, and the championship of my favorite modern moving-picture show adaptation of a Shakespeare play).

How do you utilise your @facebook.com accost? Only similar you would utilise an email address, basically. If someone wants to chat with you via Facebook Messenger but can't access Facebook for some reason (like, say, if your workplace blocks Facebook.com), he or she can email your Facebook address, and the e-mail will show upwards in your Facebook message box. When you respond to that Facebook bulletin, information technology will show up as a new email in that person's electronic mail inbox. He or she can respond to it, and it will show upward every bit a Facebook message for yous -- then on and and then forth, unto infinity.

Yous tin also ship new emails to people from the Facebook messages page, by typing in any email address in the "To" field when y'all start a new bulletin. That email will appear as coming from your @facebook.com accost.

You lot can meet how such a conversation would work in the slideshow beneath, every bit Zooey Deschanel* and I try to plan a dark out -- Zooey uses email, and I utilize Facebook.

*(Not the famous Zooey Deschanel -- a different i).

Using Your Facebook Electronic mail Address