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Facebook will add “unsend” feature after secretly deleting Zuckerberg’s messages

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Re: Facebook will add “unsend” feature after secretly deleting Zuckerberg’s messages

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This story feels like exaggerated due to weak link between Zuckerberg's messages and the new feature. They also add that Secret Chats in Messenger, Whatsapp and Instagram already support removing an already sent message. Facebook decided to also offer this feature for regular Messenger chats. I guess any headline carrying Facebook, Zuckerberg and privacy concerns can make it to top these days. Modern online journalis…

But.. wasn't this product announcement only made after journalists started asking about the Zuckerberg messages? The original story WASN'T exaggerated, facebook are just trying to play it down by making it sound like anyone can do what zuck did.

Re: Facebook will add “unsend” feature after secretly deleting Zuckerberg’s messages

#24
This is awesome! 17 year old me shit talking with friends shouldn't be used against me if I were to obtain a position of power and be blackmailed by that. Also, any message without context could be construed as sexist, racist, privalidged, ablist or whatever.

Really positive development from this entire mess of a scandal.

Re: Facebook will add “unsend” feature after secretly deleting Zuckerberg’s messages

#26

Ha, this just confirms what I thought to myself but decided not to comment on, reading some other recent Facebook-disaster post here. Mark has a different Facebook. I bet he doesn't see ads, unless he wants to. And, come to think of it, when he or other blessed entities delete something, it's really gone. Come to think of it, I wonder whether their data gets scooped up by the various monitoring and collection tools t…

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Re: Facebook will add “unsend” feature after secretly deleting Zuckerberg’s messages

#29
post #2

This story feels like exaggerated due to weak link between Zuckerberg's messages and the new feature. They also add that Secret Chats in Messenger, Whatsapp and Instagram already support removing an already sent message. Facebook decided to also offer this feature for regular Messenger chats. I guess any headline carrying Facebook, Zuckerberg and privacy concerns can make it to top these days. Modern online journalis…

But.. wasn't this product announcement only made after journalists started asking about the Zuckerberg messages? The original story WASN'T exaggerated, facebook are just trying to play it down by making it sound like anyone can do what zuck did.

Zuck was just beta testing! He's hard at work testing new features for your privacy!

Re: Facebook will add “unsend” feature after secretly deleting Zuckerberg’s messages

#30

Ha, this just confirms what I thought to myself but decided not to comment on, reading some other recent Facebook-disaster post here. Mark has a different Facebook. I bet he doesn't see ads, unless he wants to. And, come to think of it, when he or other blessed entities delete something, it's really gone. Come to think of it, I wonder whether their data gets scooped up by the various monitoring and collection tools t…

> but decided not to comment on

Ahh, you were so close too!

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