Facebook alternative email addresses on account?
I love Facebook and am building up a nice little network, but one feature I would like is the ability to transfer invitations from one email address to my registered address. It may be possible but I can’t see how to do it.
Here’s the scenario:
- Someone sends me a request to add me as a friend on Facebook, but they haven’t already searched for me, or they have a different email address for me (I have several).
- If I click the link to accept, I am invited to sign up for Facebook. If I log in instead of accepting, then the invitation is lost.
- I then have to find the person on Facebook and request them to become a friend.
OK, it’s not disastrous, but it’s a little more time consuming. What would be great is if I could associate alternative email addresses with Facebook, not to be used for general communication, but to be matched if someone invites me and has an old or alternate email address in their contact list.
Anyone know if this can be done?
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August 30th, 2007 at 1:33 pm
Found this elsewhere online while looking or a solution to the same problem, which seems to work –
(I quote) –
I got a Facebook invite from someone I haven’t seen in years. Awesome! Unfortunately, my long-lost friend used a very old email of mine. This is to be expected; I haven’t seen or corresponded with him in years. Facebook wanted me to sign up using this jurassic email in order to accept the invitation.
I tried logging in to Facebook and looking at the invitation again. No luck. Viewing the invitation while logged in silently failed, sending me to the Facebook home screen, with no error message.
Next, I tried searching for my friend on Facebook. Armed with his first and last name, and his email, I found that there was no way whatsoever to find him. I don’t use any of the popular web-mail programs or email clients that Facebook can import from, because I’m a hella old-school motherfucker.
My options now seem to be limited: spend the time to write a program to create a fake exported address book in one of the formats that Facebook accepts, or download and install a converter, like abook, in order to invite just one person, or just send my friend an email, explaining that Facebook sucks, and by the way, how the hell have you been?
I’m about to send that email, when I notice the invitation URL:
http://www.facebook.com/p.php?i=XXXXXXXX&k=ZZZZZZZZZZ&r&v=2
That XXXXXXXXX looks suspiciously like a user id. So, I copy the id onto the facebook user profile URL:
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=XXXXXXXXX
Voila! My friend’s profile, complete with a button to add him as a friend on Facebook.
Why is this so hard? What would be wrong with sending me a link to his profile in email, or detecting that I’m already logged in and showing me his profile rather that silently failing when I click on the invitation? Why can’t I just type in his name or his email and add him that way?
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