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Now I don't even know if it's new as I never check my FB Timeline (which SUCKS btw) ...
I just heard on the radio that the French government is monitoring the issue. Yes, that's what the country needs !?
What is kinda hilarious is that even on 2007 people were confusing wall-to-wall messages with private messages !
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Good point. Mass hysteria being used as a carrier for sudden bursts of clarity would be an interesting phenomenon in itself. Thousands of people suddenly realizing "Oh god, what have I been doing?" Edit: The more I read about this, the more it seems to me that this is what is going on. I think this has interesting implications for the "Privacy is dead" attitude. It suggests to me that, contrary to popular belief in s…
I wouldn't put this on the users' lack of clarity as much as I would blame Facebook for changing the course of it's features so much so that this is now happening to people. People were using the site as it was once intended and we can't blame them for being infuriated when the logic behind that usage changes. To me it's no different than Quora deciding to make all of your posts public without the chance to opt-in, e…
Looks like FB have confirmed that these were old wall posts not the messages. Something is confusing.
I can confirm that messages meant only for me were public on my wall and I have found messages I only intended for others public on their walls. They were most definitely NOT wall posts.
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Post a screen shot, lets see it.
You want a screenshot of his private message?
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"Update: Facebook Confirms No Private Messages Appearing On Timeline. They’re Old Wall Posts."
So TC have basically rewritten their entire article rather than add an update but anyway. It's probably not private messages - but it is messages that people think should be private TODAY. But it doesn't really matter - it's perception that matters here. And also I guess this is an illustration of how people's attitudes to FB have changed over time. "I would NEVER have shared this publicly." they say. But either they…
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I know that even though there was no bug here, this can be an alarming experience to see old posts surfaced like this. We're working on ways to make this interaction clearer so people aren't so surprised in the future. You ought to be doing more than that, actually. Having been an early user of Facebook, I can assure you that people viewed wall-to-wall and other types of posts differently from how they view wall post…
So you're suggesting that they replace the perception of a bug (data showing up when it shouldn't) with an actual bug (data not showing up when it should)?
(Cross-posted on TC) These are all wall to wall posts. You can inspect for yourself using a Facebook Developer account. Rollover the timestamp grab the POSTID. http://www.facebook.com/PROFILEID/posts/POSTID Example, http://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/11111111111 Throw it in the Graph API Explorer https://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer with /PROFILEID_POSTID or curl http://graph.facebook.com/PROFILEID_POSTID .…
Old facebook that we don't remember: A post on someone's wall had a link to 'Wall-to-wall' or 'Write on wall', in place of what we have today, the commenting system. Screenshot: http://blog.hishamrana.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/facebo...
- Wall posts didn’t have comments in those days (nor did they have a “like” button. Can you believe it?) Conversations were all about the “wall-to-wall”.
- Chat didn’t exist, and messaging was used much less frequently. So wall posts were used for things that would be private messages now.
- Most importantly, our attitude to public wall posts was very different.
It’s the last point that’s most important. It’s hard to remember, but the current massive controversies around social media privacy were barely on the radar a few years ago. The subsequent change in attitudes is partly due to Facebook making their platform more “open”, and partially due to raising concerns amongst users.
For example, you didn’t have to worry about your posts being read by the general public – that wasn’t even an option back in 2008. You did, of course, have to worry about your mum reading about your drunken misadventures. But even that felt like much less of an issue than it does now. People hadn’t yet learned to self-censor.
The best analogy I can think of: old Facebook was like having some friends around at your own house. Though you probably wouldn’t prance about naked or insult people to their face, you’d feel comfortable dressing down or trading off-colour jokes. New Facebook is more like a social gathering in a public place – still friendly and informal, but you have to be much more careful to present a respectable image and avoid saying anything offensive.
I think Zuck was right when he said that people would adapt to a world with less privacy and more “transparency” – people adapted, and became more polite, bland and inoffensive as a result. “I never would have posted something like that on my wall”, they say, and really mean it.
http://i.saac.me/post/your-facebook-messages-werent-leaked-o...
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Someone must have a copy of an email notification that they can tie to one of these posts...
That would be too easily spoofed for it to provide any meaningful evidence.