How Did A Person Email Me From A Website Facebook Page?

[Tilly2]

I am on Facebook, solely to be able to view certain bird related web sites.

I have been posting comments this afternoon, on one particular site.

Just now, I have received an email message in my Yahoo account from one of the people who have been making comments too.

How did this person know my 'private' email address? I don't understand that.

[Togo]

Facebook. Suspect the clue is there.....and your settings. I do not use facebook.

[Jackdaw33]

Facebook/Twitter? No, thanks

[kvalidir]

Is your email visible in your privacy settings? You can have both email and your phone number available unless you set them otherwise, check your settings first if I were you.

[Buenchico]

Up until a couple of years ago Facebook automatically forwarded any email sent to [email protected] to the email address that you'd used to register with Facebook. I thought that such automatic forwarding had ceased in May 2016 but maybe it hasn't.

If you view the full header for the email you've received you'll be able to see which address it was originally sent to:
https://help.yahoo.com/kb/SLN22026.html

[ummmm]

Jack - why bother to comment then?

[NoMercy]

I can see what JD means... I deleted my FB account some time ago as I don't like the level of exposure.

[Tilly2]

I have checked my settings and have only friends allowed to see my email address, along with my phone number. I don't actually have any friends because that's not the way I use Facebook.

The email now seems to have disappeared. I deleted it but it's not in my Trash file?????

[Mamyalynne]

Was it not a Notification of a Facebook message?

You can turn those off in Yahoo.

[Tilly2]

The message I got in my email was the same message that was written on the website post. There doesn't seem to be anything sinister but somehow the post was sent directly to me too.

[Tilly2]

How do I do that please, Mamya. Is it in settings?

[Mamyalynne]

Might be something here.

https://help.yahoo.com/kb/learn-filters-yahoo-mail-sln3225.html

[Tilly2]

Thank you, I'll have a look.

[jno]

perhaps Zuckerberg thought better of the message he sent you, and deleted it from your account?

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/apr/06/facebook-using-secret-tool-to-delete-messages-from-executives

[Peter Pedant]

well this is what Mark 'the Zuck' Zuckerberg thinks of Facebook privacy settings

http://www.trustedreviews.com/news/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-user-privacy-comments-3428804

having been accused myself of accessing someone's damned recipe section on Facebook ( I didnt - I dont cook ) - it could be luck
or - they found it elsewhere on the internet
or they punted:
john smith at XYZ university is likelyu to have an address:
[email protected]

You are on facebook and you are wondering how someone has got hold of private information from it - have you read the newspapers recently ?

[Peter Pedant]

yeah sucking an email back was a surprise
You can suck back unread emails on NHS internal computers

I had already formed the habit of downloading erm interesting emails and storing them in word docs - just in case my email bank goes up in smoke.....

[Tilly2]

Of course I read the papers PP. This was not some random person contacting me. It was someone on the same website whose comment in reply to me was also to be found in my emails.

No other comments found their way into my email account. Just seems odd.

[ummmm]

Clarion - I'm not questioning why or why not someone uses social media in whatever format. My comment to Jack was simply because he seems to feel the need to post on all threads about facebook/twitter to let us know he doesn't use them. Stay off the thread then, simple as that.

[Tilly2]

Ummmm, can you help? Do you how someone was able to email me?

[puzzled54]

On Facebook, if someone mentions your name then you get an email from Facebook to your personal email address to say that you have been mentioned. Was it this?