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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 priv
by tisme 14y ago
> 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.
- jwpeddle 14y agoThey 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's response have now backpedaled.
- tisme 14y ago"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.
- RobAtticus 14y agoLook at his edit, she isn't entirely sure they were private. Amazing how many people have "confirmed" it but nobody has posted anything verifiable. Just a screenshot of the private message inbox/email + the post on the timeline. Redact as much as you want. I've gone through the messages on my timeline, and truth be told I don't remember the context of a lot of the messages, so it wouldn't surprise me if people don't remember if something was private.
- danielweber 14y agoThis feels like the "everyone go find weird stuff in your Wendy's food now" situation all over again. Except explained more by incompetence than malice. I don't even like FB, but come on people.
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- wilfra 14y agoNo, people are making the same mistake the TC reporters made. Look through the "private messages" of your friends. The dead giveaway is that a huge number of them are happy birthday posts. People post those on walls.
- huzur79 14y agoAnd 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.
- j_s 14y agoYes, random internet strangers, please reveal the conversations you specifically intended only one person to receive for the whole world to review!