[nostromo]

Because the "old way" was worse.

http://blog.codinghorror.com/please-give-us-your-email-passw...

I believe Facebook was the first site to ask users for their email passwords -- and to great effect, at least on their growth metrics.

[zem]

ironic that facebook goes after sites that ask for your facebook password.

[Scoundreller]

I tried searching Google for "has facebook ever asked for email account logins and passwords?" and couldn't find any proof. Does anyone have a source for this?

[reubenmorais]

This is what it looked like: http://i.imgur.com/TFQeIBr.png

Whoa, I just looked at the friend finder page and it still does that for some email providers: http://i.imgur.com/bC9xEEM.png