Just in case you were thinking Mafia Wars or Farmville weren't a big enough part of your daily life, Facebook has announced that it will now offer email notifications from applications. Before you go diving off the deep end worrying about an inbox full of even more Facebook notifications, take a deep breath and remember that 80s DARE campaign slogan and let it become your mantra - "Just Say NO."
In its blog post announcing the new feature, Facebook is careful to note that its users will retain control over who can contact them by email.
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According to Inside Facebook, our favorite social network will go one step further, offering users the ability to use a proxy email address, so they don't have to divulge their email address to external entities but can still receive the notifications by email.
While this move is surely going to bring about calls of Facebook invading people's privacy, we think that as long as no information is shared by default, everything should be okay. Then again, it seems that Facebook has moved in the direction of sharing things by default, doesn't it?
What we really nope now, though, is that some of our friends don't permanently disappear into the Farmville abyss as they are constantly reminded that the cows are coming home.
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