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Add multiple email addresses?
An old colleague of mine tried to add me as a friend via my msn (hotmail) address. I can't click on the the link that Facebook provides to add him as a friend because I choose to login using my real email address and it just dumps me back at the homepage. In my profile it says "add/remove email addresses" but when you click that you can only change your primary notification email.
I can't add my old friend, he's got a very common name and the only email I have for him is a work email. And now I'm stuck.
I can't add my old friend, he's got a very common name and the only email I have for him is a work email. And now I'm stuck.
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Doh! This couldn't be done less intuitive.
Just type the new email address in the "Enter a new email address" textbox, don't care about the radio button getting focus and click "Change Contact Email". It'll ask for your password and send a verification email to the new email address. It will surprisingly NOT delete your current email address.
So you can add multiple email addresses like this.
I’m confused with poor UI usability.
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Inappropriate?If I were you I'd use the Advanced search option to try and narrow down the results for his name. Just by focusing on region, or company or college you should be able to get the list down to a reasonable size.
I’m wishing you luck.
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Inappropriate?Doh! This couldn't be done less intuitive.
Just type the new email address in the "Enter a new email address" textbox, don't care about the radio button getting focus and click "Change Contact Email". It'll ask for your password and send a verification email to the new email address. It will surprisingly NOT delete your current email address.
So you can add multiple email addresses like this.
I’m confused with poor UI usability.
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Jan, you solved my trouble. Facebook could be more helpful, however your help was useful -
Inappropriate?@jan- thanks soooooo much for posting a solution to corey's question. i've been using facebook for a while now and have had the same problem. facebook could certainly have made this feature WAY more intuitive. -
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If you will, you can star the answer as a solution. Thanks.
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Inappropriate?this worked great, not sure why FB doesn't make this more obvious considering how many people have multiple email accounts.
I’m thankful
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Inappropriate?Worked, I agree that they don't make it clear enough, it looks like you are going to change the email instead of adding a new one! I just added all 5 of my email accounts!
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