{"id":3916,"date":"2012-07-03T11:08:50","date_gmt":"2012-07-03T15:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/it\/?p=3916"},"modified":"2012-07-03T11:08:50","modified_gmt":"2012-07-03T15:08:50","slug":"facebook-to-resolve-emailsmartphone-contact-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/it\/2012\/07\/03\/facebook-to-resolve-emailsmartphone-contact-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook to Resolve Email\/Smartphone Contact Issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Be wary when syncing your smartphone with your Facebook account. Recently, Facebook replaced the e-mail account listed on users&#8217; profiles with their @Facebook.com e-mail address (<a href=\"http:\/\/howto.cnet.com\/8301-11310_39-57459966-285\/facebook-changed-your-e-mail-address-heres-how-you-can-change-it-back\/\">find out more<\/a>). Because of this, many Facebook users have found that contacts&#8217; e-mail addresses on their phones and personal devices have been changed without their consent. This is the result of a bug in the way Facebook is syncing contacts with mobile devices.<\/p>\n<p>According to Facebook, an update will be released tomorrow to resolve this problem. <strong>To fix your contacts list, do a fresh contact sync tomorrow and your contacts&#8217; primary e-mail address should be downloaded to your phone.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>More information:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-1023_3-57464415-93\/facebook-e-mail-mess-address-books-altered-e-mail-lost\/\">http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-1023_3-57464415-93\/facebook-e-mail-mess-address-books-altered-e-mail-lost\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/gadgetlab\/2012\/07\/facebook-email-woes\/\">http:\/\/www.wired.com\/gadgetlab\/2012\/07\/facebook-email-woes\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5923005\/facebook-is-fixing-your-broken-email-tomorrow-updated\">http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5923005\/facebook-is-fixing-your-broken-email-tomorrow-updated<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Be wary when syncing your smartphone with your Facebook account. Recently, Facebook replaced the e-mail account listed on users&#8217; profiles with their @Facebook.com e-mail address (find out more). Because of this, many Facebook users have found that contacts&#8217; e-mail addresses on their phones and personal devices have been changed without their consent. This is the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5559,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3916"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5559"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3917,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3916\/revisions\/3917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}