Facebook today announced a change for how people can find you
on its network — a move for more consistency, but also another route to
getting people to use more email in Facebook, and secure its place as
the center of your web life. Facebook is now rolling out a service where
the name you use in your Facebook Timeline will be the same as the name
on your Facebook email account.
Updated addresses, Facebook wrote in its announcement,
will be taking place over the next few weeks. “Anyone who already
selected an email address will not be affected,” Facebook noted.
It’s not clear how many of us have already linked up a Facebook email
address with our Timeline page — I’ve asked Facebook if it could
provide that stat to me — but this move will mean that now all of us
will (whether we wanted to or not). You can check your status here.
It means that it will become a lot easier for people to use your
Facebook email to contact you, and seems to go directly in the face of
other web mail services, specifically Google’s Gmail. What Facebook is
making a lot easier is the link up between these two. Finding a person’s
Timeline on Facebook, if you know that email address, will now be super
easy, and vice versa.
It’s notable that Google has yet to make its own email and social
networking product, Google+, as linked-up and user-friendly.
Which do you think is more catchy?
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