Facebook, you've done it again!
In its continuing effort to give users fresh material to complain about, Facebook made a stealthy change to the profile page on Monday. Your primary email address is now, by default, listed as your @facebook.com address; if you want to display a different default email address, you have to manually change it, a process that requires approximately 12 seconds of clicking on a computer.
As usual, Facebook users responded by flipping out beyond any reasonable measure, knocking over vending machines, tying bandanas around their foreheads and setting their crops on fire (in the digital sense).
But let's take a step back for a second here, and ask a more elementary question: What the heck is your @facebook.com email address, and what is it used for?
It's an email address for your Facebook messages, basically. Facebook has long striven to make its Facebook Messages hub a Hotmail or Gmail competitor. It offers individual Messenger applications for both the desktop and the smartphone; its roll-out of @facebook.com email addresses was a further push to make Facebook your primary channel of communication. Your email address was chosen for you and is simply *username*@facebook.com, where your username is whatever comes after "facebook.com/" on your personal profile page.
So, for example, you can find me at facebook.com/gilbertjasono; that means my Facebook email is . (Though you were automatically assigned one, you can change your public Facebook ID one time here; mine (gilbertjasono) is just my last name, my first name, and the title of my favorite modern film adaptation of a Shakespeare play).
How do you use your @facebook.com address? Just like you would use an email address, basically. If someone wants to chat with you via Facebook Messenger but can't access Facebook for some reason (like, say, if your workplace blocks Facebook.com), he or she can email your Facebook address, and the email will show up in your Facebook message box. When you respond to that Facebook message, it will show up as a new email in that person's email inbox. He or she can respond to it, and it will show up as a Facebook message for you -- and so on and so forth, unto infinity.
You can also send new emails to people from the Facebook messages page, by typing in any email address in the "To" field when you start a new message. That email will appear as coming from your @facebook.com address.
You can see how such a conversation would work in the slideshow below, as Zooey Deschanel* and I try to plan a night out -- Zooey uses email, and I use Facebook.
*(Not the famous Zooey Deschanel -- a different one).
Using Your Facebook Email Address
You’ve met someone on Facebook, and now you want their email address to contact them outside of the social network. Finding someone’s email on Facebook can be hard.
There are many reasons why you would want to find someone’s email address on Facebook, but it is not always easy. There are a couple of ways to get in touch with your new friend.
In this post we will show you various methods to find someone’s email address on Facebook quickly and easily.
- How to Find Someone’s Email on Facebook?
- METHOD 1: Look in the Facebook Profile
- METHOD 2: Use “Facebook Find Person” Feature
- METHOD 3: Use Online Tools to Find Email Address
- How to Find Someone’s Email Address on Facebook if it’s Private?
- Conclusion
- Ready to Find Someone’s Email on Facebook?
There are various methods that you should try to get the email address on Facebook. Some methods might work or not; that depends on the user to user. Try out the given methods and see which ones work the best for you.
METHOD 1:
Look in the Facebook Profile
This is very cliche, but you should definitely look at the person’s Facebook profile for an email address as the first step.
- Step 1: Go to the Facebook profile of the person’s email address you want.
- Step 2: Go to the “About” section on the Profile Page.
- Step 3: Look for the email address.
This is a very classic and simple method which you can try. Many people prefer to keep their email addresses available to everyone. You should know that you might get the email address from the About page of the profile.
METHOD
2:
Use “Facebook Find Person” Feature
Facebook does have these features which let you search for the people on Facebook. It is also useful in order to recover your own Facebook account.
But you can use this tool to look for the person’s email address using the following steps.
- Step 1: Go to //www.facebook.com/public/Find-Person.
- Step 2: Search the name of the person you want.
- Step 3: Write down the Username of the person from the URL.
- Step 4: Click on the forgot password section on the login page.
- Step 5: Enter the copied username.
- Step 6: Facebook will ask you to verify your email address and they will show you the email address as well.
- Step 7: No need to go ahead. Done. You got the email address on Facebook.
METHOD 3:
Use Online Tools to Find Email Address
There are various chrome extensions and online tools which help you get the email address by scrapping the Facebook profile.
It is much easier to get an email address using those tools as they scrape and find the data for you within an instance. There are various tools available which you can try.
Swordfish AI (swordfish.ai) is one of the best email finder and cell phone finder tools out there. Swordfish AI simultaneously connects to over 200+ network data partners to bring users the most updated and accurate contact information, including personal and business email addresses, and the prized piece of personal contact information, cell phone and mobile phone numbers.
The unique thing about Swordfish AI is that it does not violate the Facebook terms of service because it’s not actually scrapping Facebook. It is only using the person’s profile url as a data reference. It then uses Google to verify this is the correct person you are looking for. Finally, Swordfish AI simultaneously connects to over 200+ network data partners, live in real-time, to obtain the most updated email address and contact information for that person.
Swordfish’s mission is to save you your most valuable asset – time, to reduce your cognitive load, to make connecting to business opportunities easier, and of course, to authenticate identity.
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How to Find Someone’s Email Address on Facebook if it’s Private?
Many users ask how you can enter into the profile of the person who has a private Facebook account. If you are also one of them, you don’t need to be worried about it.
Method 3 is a method that you can use. All you need is a username of the person’s Facebook profile, and Swordfish AI will do the rest.
Once you get that, you can use the Swordfish AI “Deep Search” to do a full social media profile search lookup.
Conclusion
Don’t you think it’s very easy to find someone’s email address on Facebook?
We have given the way how you can do this in a step-by-step process. Just follow all of them and get your desired information.
We will also share some more guides on how to find someone’s email address on Instagram, Snapchat, LinkedIn, Twitter, etc.
If you know other tools that work best for you, let us know in the comments section.
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