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May 17, 2010
 

Facebook: Please Update Your Email Address

So, for the past month Facebook has been trying to make me reconfirm my email address. I've done this about 7 times now. I have a custom email address and I'm sure I'm not the only one who doesn't use the standard email addresses like yourschool.edu, gmail, hotmail, aol, etc. You'd think Facebook would be able to retain this information after 7 times of reconfirming by email. Just one more annoying thing to add to the list. Do you have a custom email address? And when you log into Facebook do you have this issue too?


Update: 05/23/2010: I went ahead and reconfirmed my email one more time for Facebook and it seems to be working now. :)
Update: 06/03/2010: Oh No, it's back...

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Comments (17)

May 17, 2010
hedgewytch said...
Sounds horribley suspicious, I'd delete my account, don't trust them at all ;(
May 17, 2010
mandy offen-something said...
I used to have that problem, so I just switched to a gmail account. I saw your other post on FB privacy, have you seen this yet?

http://www.reclaimprivacy.org/facebook

May 18, 2010
Nicholas Patten said...
I hadn't seen that yet. Thanks for sharing :)
May 18, 2010
Kenley Neufeld said...
My wife, who uses a custom domain, gets this all the time on Facebook.
May 18, 2010
Nicholas Patten said...
Ya, I've gotten used to seeing the above image every time I get on Facebook. I'm not changing my email because of their error.
May 18, 2010
Scott Finnegan said...
I wonder if it is not the domain, but maybe some stuff you get from FB is going into your spam folder, and maybe FB gets pinged that you are marking them as spam. Just a thought. I have used a custom domain email address for 2+ years on FB and have never seen that message.
May 18, 2010
Nicholas Patten said...
I just checked my spam folder, no facebook emails. I've turned off all notifications inside of the facebook options so no emails should be coming to my inbox (maybe that's why?). It might be the domain name, but I'm not sure how that would be creating an error inside of facebook? Thanks for your input.
May 18, 2010
Joe Bonner said...
Same problem here. Custom email address, incessant requests to reconfirm my current email address. I get a similar message on Twitter from time to time.
May 18, 2010
Jan Erik Moström said...
Twitter is the same, I got the same kind of message where they wanted me to confirm the email ... it didn't work. Had to switch to a gmail address
May 18, 2010
Laurie Lynard said...
Ugh...thank you! This drives me crazy!I will switch to another email address. Thanks Nicholas for raising the issue and to the rest of you for the solutions!
May 18, 2010
Henry Koren said...
Hey, I thought I was the only one being constantly badgered. I guess not.
May 18, 2010
Aaron Weiler said...
Hey Nick... I've been getting this a lot lately, too. At least 3 times per week. At first I thought I was having problems with my domain address, but I'm thinking Facebook is flakey.
May 18, 2010
Aaron Weiler said...
BTW -- I'm beginning to think the problem might be caused when email to my domain alias is forwarded to my actual MindSpring address... maybe Facebook receives some kind of feedback that the emails are being redirected. Just a theory.
May 18, 2010
Diego Zamboni said...
I never saw this message using my custom email address. Still, I coincidentally deleted my FB account today :-) http://blog.zzamboni.org/deleting-my-facebook-account-0
May 18, 2010
Laurie Lynard said...
OMG! Is this the Social Media equivalent to Black Friday? The rats are jumping ship! What should we do??? I, for one, am not too concerned. Should I be? Let's panic!
May 19, 2010
Renji Thomas said...
Never seen that before.. leave FB and go where???
May 19, 2010
Diego Zamboni said...
Laurie: I don't think anyone should panic, but just be aware of the implications on your privacy of fb's constant privacy policy changes. Many people think stuff they post on fb is private, when it's far from it. See the
links in my post above for some more context and advice.

Renji: admittedly, fb is a useful site, and there's no other as big or as popular. I'm not saying everyone should leave fb, but rather be mindful of your information and use it responsibly.

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