Facebook considers your current IP address to be "public information" as well

Okay, this is getting out of hand. And by this, I mean everyone crying wolf at Facebook. I'm none to pleased about the way the site is going these days either, but IP addresses = "public information"? Did someone forget how email headers <i>work</i>?

Interesting, of course your ip address is normally present in the headers of your email anyway, but using a service like facebook (which has a pretty high stalking potential) you might not want to give that much away, especially not when you think that such info is safe.

Many webmail providers put the originating IP address in the headers in order to be able act later if the message turns out to be spam. Hotmail, Gmail and Yahoo all do it - I just checked. As others have said, this is not news.<p>Correction: Gmail does not do it when submitting using webmail, only when submitting via SMTP.

The difference between sending a message via facebook and via smtp, is that in this case facebook is appending your ip address on purpose. I mean, if I wanted to do the same with my web apps, I'd have to specifically tell my email framework to include the ip of the user.

Is there anything that Facebook doesn't consider "public information" anymore?