Facebook has been racing to deal with a series of technical glitches after making a controversial change to its members’ email settings that has been criticised in some quarters as a heavy-handed way to promote its service at the expense of competitors.
The social networking company last week completed the process of handing @facebook.com email addresses to all its members, part of an overhaul begun in 2010 to introduce a range of Facebook messaging services.
Users were not notified of the move, and a change that Facebook made last week to the visibility settings on its members’ personal pages has also made only the @facebook.com address publicly visible, obscuring any other personal addresses a member may have entered.