The change will happen in early March.
Facebook has quietly shuttered its three-year-old email service that gave users "@facebook.com" email addresses.
From now on, emails sent to an "@facebook.com" address will be forwarded to the personal email
address from which the member signed up for the site.Facebook has quietly shuttered its three-year-old email service that gave users "@facebook.com" email addresses.
From now on, emails sent to an "@facebook.com" address will be forwarded to the personal email
"We're making this change because most people haven't been using their Facebook email address," said a Facebook spokesperson.
The change will happen in early March.
The service was launched in November 2010 and billed as a way to streamline users' communication by providing a single inbox that could receive Facebook messages, SMS texts, and conventional emails.
It came under fire in 2012 when Facebook replaced users' published email addresses with their "@facebook.com" email on their profile.
The company later reversed course.
The move comes just a few days after Facebook's surprise purchase of messaging app WhatsApp for $19bn (£11.4bn).
-BBC
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