How To Remove Email Address From Facebook Profile

Facebook Changed Your Email Address With Your Facebook.Com Email Address, Here Is How To Undo It

By default, every Facebook user has a facebook.com email address, whether he likes using it or not. Any email sent to the facebook.com email address of a user lands up in the messages folder and can be found from the search box by typing “is:email”.

The problem with a Facebook.com email address is that the address is not private, as anyone can guess the address through the vanity URL of your Facebook account. For example, if your Facebook account URL is facebook.com/abc, your facebook.com email address would be abc@facebook.com.

Until today, Facebook users had the ability to show their primary or secondary email addresses on their profile information section, instead of showing their facebook.com email address, which I don’t consider as a real email address anyway. Shy users often tweaked the visibility of their profile information section to “Private” or “Friends only” so that their real email address is hidden from spammers and random strangers, who might try to extract contact information from their Facebook profile.

Yesterday, Facebook has changed how email addresses are displayed on your Facebook profile. The change does two things :

Your primary and secondary email addresses that are tied to your Facebook account are no longer shown on the “Contact info” section of your Facebook profile. Instead, your publicly view-able email address has been replaced by your unique Facebook.com email address.
Your primary and secondary email addresses are still tied to your Facebook account, it is just that Facebook has decided not to show it on the “Contact Info” section of your Facebook profile or timeline.

This is in some ways useful for users who get tons of spam at their Gmail, Yahoo or Hotmail accounts and have always wondered the real source of email spam. However, if you are anything like me and want to show at least one Gmail.com address publicly on your Facebook profile, here are a few things you should do.

Remove Facebook.com Email Address From Your Facebook Profile / Timeline

First things first, there is no way you can permanently delete your Facebook.com email address or completely disable it. This is a core feature and it is not possible to turn your Facebook.com email off. You have to live with it.

However it is certainly possible to remove email address from Facebook profile by tweaking the email visibility settings. We will soon learn the steps to do it.

1. To replace the Facebook.com email address with a custom email address of your choice, go to your Facebook timeline and click on the “About” section. Next click the “Edit” button on the top right corner of “Contact Info” section, an example is shown below:

2. Click the “circle” button placed next to your Facebook.com email address and from the drop-down menu that appears, choose “Hidden from Timeline”. The default option from yesterday is “Shown on Timeline” so if you want to hide your Facebook.com email address, you have to choose the other option.

4. Right above your Facebook.com email address, you will see your primary and secondary email addresses listed one after another (this also includes the email address you have used to sign up for Facebook). Click the circle icon and you can choose to show your primary email address on your Facebook profile or you may also choose to keep email address hidden on Facebook.

If you ask me, I prefer showing at least one Gmail.com address on my Facebook timeline so that anyone can get in touch or send me a message. It is also worth noting that you should choose the email visibility as “Public” and not “Only me”.

How To Delete An Email ID From Facebook

At first, you need to go to the Settings and visit the General tab. Here you can find a section called Contact. Expand this section and find out the email ID that you want to remove. Following that, click the respective Remove button and verify your entry by entering your account password.