By Pavol Nagy on Wednesday, 09 August 2017
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Hello,

I noticed that some of my new users have email as thier username. Probably because they are comming from FB signup. Is there option to force user to create username or use his real name/surname instead of email as profile name? Otherwise everyone knows private emails...Facebook also not shows you email but rather real name.

Thanks for help.

Best,
Pavol
Hi there,

Actually, it is based on how those user set them, as you can see here http://take.ms/4OGNM, as by default, we will fetch those emails as their usernames. Maybe you can check those details on your site under Users sections as shown http://take.ms/UXSC0.

Please advice
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Wednesday, 09 August 2017 18:03
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HI Warith,

yes this is what you do by default. I believe this is wrong and breaches privacy. You will never see user email in Facebook unless you allow to see it in profile. You should use combination of user FirstName and LastName as user name as default. I guess this can make troubles if there are same names. Then there should be some number or so. For example my name is also very common. And therefore on facebook I have this link https://www.facebook.com/pavol.nagy.54 so "pavol.nagy.54" is my internal autogenerated username. But I guess for Joomla, email is the key unique identification of user. So should be no problem with duplicates.
Other option is to ask for username if there is duplicate firstname last name. Technical/UX solution is on your side .

Pls consider this with developers.

Best,
Pavol
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Wednesday, 09 August 2017 21:47
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Hi there,

In order for you to let Easysocial fetch them for you, it is required for you to submit for review first as you can see here http://take.ms/Z5tbh

Please give it a try and see how it goes.
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Thursday, 10 August 2017 10:21
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HI,

I do not understand what will happen if I get this permision user_about_me from FB? I have enough data from FB already with basic info. Problem is that username is email.

Thx,
Best,
Pavol
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Thursday, 10 August 2017 13:44
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Hi there,

I am sorry for any confusion made on above reply In order for your to be able to user Facebook's username, you need to change this http://take.ms/Cjcxh settings. Please give it a try and see how it goes
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Thursday, 10 August 2017 15:07
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