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Facebook Users Report Seeing Old Private Messages Showing Up On Timelines

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Re: Facebook Users Report Seeing Old Private Messages Showing Up On Timelines

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If it is indeed verified I would be the first one to jump on the bandwaggon and delete the account and tell others to do so. But so far I have not seen anything to verify it and more reports on Facebook claims that it is indeed old user to user wall posts (something I remember and used in the past personally) just showing up from people now liking them which at the time they didn't have a like button.

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Post a screen shot, lets see it.

Re: Facebook Users Report Seeing Old Private Messages Showing Up On Timelines

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> And I've been looking pretty hard for the last 30 minutes. You need not look so far, it's right here in this thread. People are confirming some of their private messages set to 'friends' only to be world visible on their timeline.

They aren't confirming anything. People are looking at wallposts and thinking/remembering they are private messages, but everyone that has tried to verify using email notifications has found only wallposts. Until someone shows that a verifiable private message showed up publicly, than there's no reason to continue spreading this. If it's a problem, it can easily be confirmed. Even Techcrunch, who criticised Facebook'…

"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."

Sounds pretty clear to me, I figure that the lady knows which conversation were private and which weren't, if only by their content.

Re: Facebook Users Report Seeing Old Private Messages Showing Up On Timelines

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Hum http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/24/reports-facebook-users-seei... "TechCrunch has investigated more, and we have found no evidence that the allegedly exposed posts were actually private messages. Their email receipts show they were in fact wall posts, and the posts do not appear in users’ Facebook Messages inbox. Facebook also says in no uncertain terms that there is absolutely no privacy bug. What people are seein…

> And I've been looking pretty hard for the last 30 minutes. You need not look so far, it's right here in this thread. People are confirming some of their private messages set to 'friends' only to be world visible on their timeline.

And yet not one person has posted any evidence. Not one screen shoot. Which has been asked by a few people already. Show me the screen shots. Show me the screen shots.

Re: Facebook Users Report Seeing Old Private Messages Showing Up On Timelines

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

If it is indeed verified I would be the first one to jump on the bandwaggon and delete the account and tell others to do so. But so far I have not seen anything to verify it and more reports on Facebook claims that it is indeed old user to user wall posts (something I remember and used in the past personally) just showing up from people now liking them which at the time they didn't have a like button.

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Already deleted all of them, and don't have access to that e-mail account anymore (never updated from my old school acct).

Re: Facebook Users Report Seeing Old Private Messages Showing Up On Timelines

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This seems to be anecdotally confirmed by multiple people here. To me, if true , this screams of a broken engineering culture inside Facebook, where the model for data privacy and security is secondary, not primary. If this is indeed verified, no one should ever use Facebook for anything truly private, regardless of what apologies or excuses are made. It is difficult to think of something like this, where private ema…

If it is indeed verified I would be the first one to jump on the bandwaggon and delete the account and tell others to do so. But so far I have not seen anything to verify it and more reports on Facebook claims that it is indeed old user to user wall posts (something I remember and used in the past personally) just showing up from people now liking them which at the time they didn't have a like button.

Regardless of what the actual situation is, if these posts are being brought to people's attention by friends because they seem sensitive and are now more prominent than they once were, isn't that a concern in and of itself?

Re: Facebook Users Report Seeing Old Private Messages Showing Up On Timelines

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I too thought I found private messages on my timeline. But it turns out they were indeed wallposts. It shows how much facebook has changed from a friends-only environment where you used the wall of people for semi-private chats, to a place where you have to be carefull and try to present yourself in a decent manner. Noone would ever use the wall in the same way it was used back then.

Re: Facebook Users Report Seeing Old Private Messages Showing Up On Timelines

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This seems to be anecdotally confirmed by multiple people here. To me, if true , this screams of a broken engineering culture inside Facebook, where the model for data privacy and security is secondary, not primary. If this is indeed verified, no one should ever use Facebook for anything truly private, regardless of what apologies or excuses are made. It is difficult to think of something like this, where private ema…

This DOES seem to be anecdotally confirmed, but we're yet to see any screenshots of this. Pics or it didn't happen, folks.

Re: Facebook Users Report Seeing Old Private Messages Showing Up On Timelines

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Hum http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/24/reports-facebook-users-seei... "TechCrunch has investigated more, and we have found no evidence that the allegedly exposed posts were actually private messages. Their email receipts show they were in fact wall posts, and the posts do not appear in users’ Facebook Messages inbox. Facebook also says in no uncertain terms that there is absolutely no privacy bug. What people are seein…

Interesting. Did you register just now to post this response?

yup due to a friend that puts way to much value in posters opinions here vs using logic and his own mind. People are jumping the bandwaggon of facebook hate on something that isn't verified based on reports that make a lot more sense that its old wall to wall posts and not personal messages. The lack of any real evidence including from those posting here that can confirm yet cant show screen shots of this is just more cause of concern this is just bandwaggon hopping. I have no love for facebook. None at all. But I am not going to go nuts over something that isn't proven in the slightest.
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