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"Each message expires after a specific time you've set, either 1, 3, 5 or 10 seconds. When time runs out, the message disappears from the app." Sure it disappe
by greenwalls 14y ago
"Each message expires after a specific time you've set, either 1, 3, 5 or 10 seconds. When time runs out, the message disappears from the app."
Sure it disappears from the app, but the message probably stays on Facebook's servers for the rest of your life. Then someday in the future Facebook will probably change their privacy settings suddenly (on purpose or accidentally) and all your messages will appear on your timeline for everyone to see.
- creativityland 14y agoThe younger kids won't switch from snapchat to this and they seem to be the audience for this kind of feature.
- TannerLD 14y agoWhy not? They can already send photos to all their friends, because Facebook already knows their friends. To me, it seems like it would be a hit.
- patrickod 14y agoI thought it was proven that previous reports of "private messages" showing up on poeples' Timelines were false and were down to user confusion?
- nwh 14y agoWhile that's true, the fact is that the data stays forever. If you copy the direct CDN url of a photo on Facebook and then "delete" it, you can keep returning to that URL to see if it is still active. I've one saved from 2009 that still loads, despite having being "deleted" for almost three years now.
- deleted 14y ago[deleted]
- zdrtx 14y agoFacebook deletes poke data. http://techcrunch.com/2012/12/22/your-facebook-pokes-are-stored-for-two-days-then-their-encryption-keys-are-deleted/ http://techcrunch.com/2012/12/22/your-facebook-pokes-are-sto...