Facebook is Friends..Facebook is Fun!
In my last post on Facebook’s new service – Facebook Email with [email protected] (though I am still waiting for an invitation to create an email account), I think there would be certain issues.
The first one I can think of is Facebook Username issue. There are still some users who are not aware of Usernames at Facebook. So, they need to create usernames (that is easy enough), but the issue is that many usernames have been taken. I am not talking about username of Users but username of pages. Now, will pages have email ids too, now this doesn’t seems to happen at this time. Therefore, all these Page Usernames can’t be used by Users as their account usernames. With this large number of good or wanted usernames (being used for pages) their availability becomes less for FB users.
Next, I am not sure about it, but still would like to address is Facebook email spam issue. As, it is clear that username are being used for email address at Facebook, then spammers can collect genuine email ids from Facebook Profile URLs – http://facebook.com/xxxxxx where xxxxxx is username. Though this could be a User’s username or Page’s Username but with time a database can be build up while separating User’s usernames and Page’s Usernames. If such a list is created then you can expect to receive many unwanted emails. This could happen by using FB Apps, where if you use an app then your username and friends usernames can be grabbed.
Lets see how this issue pops up after some time..