How to Send an Outside Email to Facebook

By Alan Sembera

You can change your Facebook email address by choosing a new username.
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You can send email messages to Facebook members using practically any email program, even if you’re not a Facebook member yourself. Facebook assigns each of its members a unique email address that can be used to send and receive messages outside the Facebook community. If you don’t know someone's Facebook email address, you can find it easily it by visiting that person’s Facebook Timeline.

Step 1

Find out the recipient’s Facebook username, either by asking the user or visiting his or her Facebook profile. The username will be displayed at the end of the Facebook page’s URL in the browser address bar. For example, if the URL is "www.facebook.com/Jane.Smith", the username is “Jane.Smith”.

Step 2

Start a new email message in your regular email program.

Step 3

Address the email to “[email protected]”, where “username” is replaced by the person’s Facebook username. Using the previous example, Jane Smith’s Facebook email address would be "[email protected]".

Step 4

Add a subject and a message. The subject is optional, but the email must contain something in the message field or the other person won’t see it. You can also attach files to the email.

Step 5

Send the email. The other person usually will receive the message in his or her Facebook Inbox although in some cases the message may get filtered to the person's ”Other” folder.

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