Facebook Changed Everyone's Email Addresses Without Prior Warning

The social network with 900 million profiles, has taken it upon itself to change users' email addresses and replace it with one that ends in '@facebook.com'. 

This means the email will come via Facebook messages instead of your email account.

Facebook claimed the change is to protect users' privacy and security by not displaying a personal email address but the site's more generic one. 

A spokesman said: 'As we announced back in April, we’ve been updating addresses on Facebook to make them consistent across our site.

HOW TO CHANGE YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS BACK

 1. Go into the 'About' section of your profile

2. Where the email address is displayed, click 'Edit' 

3. Click on the circle along from the @facebook.com address

4. Change setting to 'hidden from timeline'

5. Click on circle next to other email address and choose 'shown on timeline'

6. Hit save at the bottom of the edit box

'In addition to everyone receiving an address, we’re also rolling out a new setting that gives people the choice to decide which addresses they want to show on their timelines.'

So for those of you that prefer getting notifications via emails should change back. (You can follow the procedure on the right ----->)