Facebook draws user angry with e-mail switch

MENLO PARK, California: Facebook has changed your e-mail address. That’s how it appears after a quiet change in the way the company displays users’ contact information.
Facebook replaced the e-mail address users chose when they signed up with a facebook.com address. The Facebook e-mail accounts allow users to communicate with outside e-mail addresses via Facebook.
The changes were first pointed out by bloggers over the weekend, leading to complaints from users.
Users are free to restore their former e-mail addresses. In an e-mail, Facebook spokeswoman Jillian Stefanki said the site is also rolling out a setting that allows people to decide which e-mail addresses to show on their pages.
The company said in a statement in April that it was “updating addresses on Facebook to make them consistent across our site.”