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Facebook's newest change to be mindful of.

Facebook has never been one to play nicely with its users' security.  Since its inception it has been notorious for changes and "feature" additions that ran contrary to the chosen security settings of its users.  While you may have your Facebook virtually locked down, every new feature carries the risk of displaying more of your information to the public--until you find and eliminate said new feature, at least. The newest unexpected change is in your Facebook personal email settings.  Instead of your normal default email address showing in your contact information page, Facebook apparently wants your "@facebook.com" email address to show instead.  While many readers may be asking, "Wait, I have a Facebook email address?" the folks over at Facebook have been pushing the idea of getting you away from your gmail, hotmail and other addresses and trying to get their users on the Facebook email service instead. For the overwhelming majority of folks