The following represents an email that arrived in my inbox today:
To: xxxxxxx@gmail.com From: Facebook <xxxx+xxxxxxx@facebookmail.com> Subject: Please reset your email notification settings.Unfortunately, the settings that control which email notifications get sent to you were lost. We’re sorry for the inconvenience.
To reset your email notification settings, go to:
http://www.facebook.com/editaccount.php?notifications
Thanks,
The Facebook Team
At first I thought this must be a hoax. Shockingly, after logging into my Facebook account, OMG, right there at the top of my home page was:
Unfortunately, the settings that control which email notifications get sent to you were lost. We
It appears to be for real! How in the World could this have happened?
They hadn’t lost my email address, obviously, because they sent me an email to inform me of their error. What caused them to lose the settings on *which* emails to send?
Did you get the same email? If so, sign in to FB, Go to your SETTINGS in your FB acct. then choose NOTIFICATIONS and choose whichever buttons you want and SAVE.
A note to my young multi-millionaire buddys at Facebook: Grow up!
November 29, 2008 at 1:32 pm
I think the worst part of this whole thing is the quality of the email they sent out. It didn’t have the Facebook logo, any sort of proper signature and was typed out in a cheap font, which made is look like the most stupid phishing attempt ever. I was a split second away from just deleting it.
November 30, 2008 at 11:58 am
just think if facebook sent an email to all the people who had not visited facebook for some time maybe to lets say 50,000.000 of us.. I wounder how much ad revenue they would make from just that one email blast. Sounds like a great way to make a load of cash to me.