Facebook Employees Get @fb.com Addresses, While Users Get @facebook.com

Last week, we broke the story that Facebook employees might get even shorter email addresses with a domain @fb.com. Hours later, the fb.com address was publicly transferred to Facebook from the American Farm Bureau.

Today the company confirmed our story. While users will get @facebook.com addresses, the company’s employees will change to @fb.com.

Founder Mark Zuckerberg said the company had long internal discussions about what to give users.

“If we could give users our very best with @facebook.com,

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