You may not realize this, but if you have a Facebook account, you also have a Facebook email address based on your profile name. People can easily guess this email address (<your profile>@facebook.com) and send you email using it or even use it in a malicious manner.
There used to be an inbox for your Facebook email, but that was removed. Now, any email sent to your Facebook email address gets forwarded to your primary email address by default. People have been known to use other people’s Facebook email addresses (because they were easy to guess from the profile names) to sign up for services where they don’t want to provide their own email address, possibly causing you to receive spam in your primary email.
To avoid getting unwanted email through your Facebook account, you can disable your Facebook email. Log into your Facebook account in a browser and go to your Home page. Click the down arrow in the upper-right corner of the page and select “Settings” from the drop-down menu.
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