I'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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Facebook Users Report Seeing Old Private Messages Showing Up On Timelines
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#22I'm deactivating my account because of this. I can manage without Facebook for a few days until they fix this bug.
Wow, a few weeks ago I was joking that if Facebook went through my private messages, I wouldn't be surprised, based on how scummy they've behaved in the past. Now apparently they've done this, except also shared everything with the whole world. I don't think I have to say this, but this is totally, 100% unacceptable. Back then I was using FB almost as a personal e-mail; the consequences of something like this could be cataclysmic. Can you imagine having your personal email "accidentally" posted to the general public?
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#23Looks like FB have confirmed that these were old wall posts not the messages. Something is confusing.
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#24I can confirm it too. Scary stuff. This is going to cause real world problems for a lot of people.
I am done with Facebook now. Bye.
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#25Looks like FB have confirmed that these were old wall posts not the messages. Something is confusing.
They wouldn't ever lie, would they? Who are you going to believe, hundreds (or thousands) of FB users, or FB themselves?
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#26Bye-Bye Facebook.
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#27Every time I hear of Facebook developer philosophies, it's always "Move Fast and Break Things."... Not with 800 million people's private conversations, please.
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#28Can at least one person making these claims actually show any real proof about this? Just one person. I mean if its such a major flaw and verifiable I would expect at least one screen shoot showing this to be the case.
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#29Definitely 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.
correct, if u go back and forth you can read whole conversations.
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#30Every time I hear of Facebook developer philosophies, it's always "Move Fast and Break Things."... Not with 800 million people's private conversations, please.
What can one do? They aren't a government entity -- you can't vote management out or change policies. They aren't regulated -- you have no complaint procedures or escalation mechanism. The best you can do is yell at them. They will gladly laugh at you through their young-and-rich-and-by-the-way-fu billionaire eyes.
If they decide to make public every thing you've ever written in rolling 10 year intervals there is nothing you can do to stop them.
The public has no idea how much can go wrong giving one entity essentially a copy of their entire private lives.