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It's pretty obvious: A message between two people exists as two separate units in two separate locations. Deleting the account deletes only one copy, namely th
by TAForObvReasons 9y ago
It's pretty obvious: A message between two people exists as two separate units in two separate locations. Deleting the account deletes only one copy, namely the copy that exists on your end. The digital analogue is a text message -- deleting the text message locally, say by physically destroying your phone, doesn't actually erase the message on the other side.
- dannyw 9y agoI’d be very surprised if Facebook is wasting half of their messages DCs by storing each message twice, instead of deduplicating them.
- actuallyalys 9y agoIt's probably not literally true that Facebook stores two copies of each message (or three or more copies for group chats), but it makes sense for Facebook to act like it does because that's how email and text messages work.
- remarkEon 9y agoSee my above comment. I don’t see how Facebook can reconcile deleting your comments on things like statuses and preserving messages in the Messenger app. Maybe that just means they aren’t actually deleting your comments.