How do i find my facebook email

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Using Your Facebook Email Address
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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

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Using Your Email Account

Most of us use Facebook to connect with friends and stay in touch with them. Some use it to update statuses while others use it to connect to long-lost friends. However, Facebook isn’t just for messaging your friends. You can use it to mail other people, just like you do with Gmail, using your own Facebook email ID. All you need is have your own Facebook account.

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Launch your phone’s browser. Click on your phone browser to open it. This can be your default phone browser or a browser you installed from the Google Play Store, like Google Chrome.
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Go to Facebook. Type in m.facebook.com in the address bar.
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Log in. Enter your username and password on the Facebook login page.
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Go to your Facebook inbox. It is the message bubbles icon that is located between the Facebook logo and the search field.
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Access your mails. Click on the "Other" folder to access your mail. You can find the "Other" folder at the bottom of the message screen.
- You cannot access the "Other" folder through your Facebook app on your phone, so it is important to use your phone browser for this instead.
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Select a message. You will probably see a lot of unread messages from different people. You can read the message by clicking on the Message box.
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Reply to the message. Click on the Reply box if you want to reply to the message. Type your message then send it.

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Go to your email provider. Click on your phone browser to open it then type in the primary email account address that is used with your Facebook.com (the mail ID you used to sign up with Facebook), for example, gmail.com.
- If your email provider has an app, like Gmail or Yahoo! Mail, you can launch the app instead.
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Log into your email account. Type in your username/email address and password on the fields provided to log in.
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Check your mail. When you signed up on Facebook, you used a primary email address, and the emails your contact send to your @facebook.com account now get directly forwarded to your primary mail address. Check your inbox for any Facebook emails that have been forwarded to your mail ID.
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Open the Facebook mail. Just select the mail that comes from @facebook.com, and click on it to open it.