Im surprised at Facebooks response, which is basically, "Your all crazy and there is no problem".
Facebook Users Report Seeing Old Private Messages Showing Up On Timelines
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#12That is deeply disturbing. Is it showing up as new or does one have to go back and find them in the timeline when they were sent?
They do not show up as new. The ones I found were mixed in with regular wall posts at the time of the post (2009 for mine).
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#13I'm deactivating my account because of this. I can manage without Facebook for a few days until they fix this bug.
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#14i can confirm this too. 3 private message threads from 2009-2010 were on my wall with the privacy set to "friends". these were conversations right out of my private messages (which were also in my private messages). i'm deleting every facebook message as a result of this, which isn't easy as it has to be done one by one. i am in the US, but my UK friends are the ones who alerted me to it, as it was happening to them…
Same here, my wife just called me crying because a large number of very private conversations she had with friends in the past are now visible on her timeline. Is the quickest option a manual delete? She is freaking out. Edit: I have set her privacy as strict as I can for now, but having pressed her on the topic, it isn't entirely certain that these messages were ever private. My comment to her was that even if they…
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#15I'm deactivating my account because of this. I can manage without Facebook for a few days until they fix this bug.
+1 probably the quickest way to deal with this. Definitely beats deleting everything one-at-a-time.
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#16So it's, again, people forgetting that they used to write wall-to-wall messages in 2009, and that they were always visible to friends?
i' m thinking the same. People please compare with email notification Facebook was sending at the time, provide screenshot to have a real proof !
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#17Definitely seeing a bit of this. It's inbound messages only, not outbound, but there are some things here definitely not meant to be seen by some friends.
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#18Definitely seeing a bit of this. It's inbound messages only, not outbound, but there are some things here definitely not meant to be seen by some friends.
well, that's because your outbound messages are on your friends's wall, not yours.
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#19If this is true, this is the first nail in a lot of very expensive coffins.
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#20i can confirm this too. 3 private message threads from 2009-2010 were on my wall with the privacy set to "friends". these were conversations right out of my private messages (which were also in my private messages). i'm deleting every facebook message as a result of this, which isn't easy as it has to be done one by one. i am in the US, but my UK friends are the ones who alerted me to it, as it was happening to them…
Had the same problem as well. About 10-15 private messages were shown on my timeline form 2008-2009. I've hid my timeline so only I can see it for right now until it's fixed. Seems like an quicker /easier than deleting the messages.