Outlook.com Email and Social Media Privacy

Learn how to prevent content from your social networking accounts from unexpectedly appearing with @buffalo.edu email messages you send.

Screenshot of Outlook.com inbox.

Dr. Doe's Facebook profile photo appears in a student's Outlook.com inbox.

Who Is Affected

If you use your @buffalo.edu email address to log into Facebook or X (formerly Twitter), customers of the Outlook.com webmail service will see your Facebook or X (formerly Twitter) profile photo when they receive email from you. This may be an undesired result.

Outlook.com provides Web access for the following email domains:  @hotmail.com, @msn.com, @live.com and @outlook.com.

How to Unlink Your @buffalo.edu Email Address

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