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I think it's a little funny but I wouldn't call it deceptive. If you delete your local copy of a text message, that doesn't remove it from the other person's ph
by jdtang13 9y ago
I think it's a little funny but I wouldn't call it deceptive. If you delete your local copy of a text message, that doesn't remove it from the other person's phone. Same thing with messages on AIM and IRC. So un-sending seems to be the far less obvious feature.
- kevindqc 9y agoFacebook owns the whole ecosystem, which makes it possible and expected for a deleted message to be deleted on all of Facebook. Your SMS, IRC, etc. messages are stored locally. Your Facebook messages get loaded from Facebook.
- jdtang13 9y agoYes, that's true. I suppose for me, the deception starts at the very beginning from Messenger's UI, which makes it look like any other texting app which uses local storage.
- obmelvin 9y agoI'm not aware of a messaging service that lets you delete the recipients copy of a message, so I'm fairly surprised about people's reaction to your comments. Am I just not aware?
- varenc 9y agoSlack/Facebook comments/posts are all things I use that let me delete previously sent messages. This is possible because they control it all. (Of course, I'm relying on the other users' clients coming online and respecting the delete instructions) and fair points about email... I had assumed this worked like other parts of Facebook, which doesn't seem unreasonable given they control the whole stack. (and they did shut down their old XMPP gateway awhile back)
- duluiz1 9y agoWhatsApp lets you delete the recipients copy of a message