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Re:Ask HN: Know a good tool to purge all posts/likes/photos ... by mattzito on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @01:12PM (#12256094)
So - what you saw was automatically generated on your phone, and not uploaded to facebook. It's just displayed on your phone in the newsfeed view, and you can opt-in to having it posted.

This happened to a friend of mine who is an ex-FBer, and he posted on FB about it, and a number of people from the FB team who worked on the mobile app piece of it confirmed that indeed no data had left his phone without him requesting that it be posted, but that they were going to make that behavior more clear in an upcoming release.

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Re:Ask HN: Know a good tool to purge all posts/likes/photos ... by bsbechtel on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @03:35PM (#12257185)
Yeah, it's happened in the past where they show you little thumbnails of your photos album to encourage you to share/post, but the fact that they created a video (during an eventful, emotional, and exciting but very private time) was a bit much. Your comment is a little reassuring, but the fact that FB doesn't have the greatest track record, and this is hearsay on HN, I'm still concerned/annoyed.
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Re:Ask HN: Know a good tool to purge all posts/likes/photos ... by colinbartlett on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @02:49PM (#12256890)
That's crazy, does that rendering happen in the background while the phone is in your pocket?
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Re:Ask HN: Know a good tool to purge all posts/likes/photos ... by cbhl on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @03:26PM (#12257133)
It's all just slides and pans -- stuff that can be previewed in real-time locally on your phone. Stuff that would run on a computer with 1/10th the compute/graphics/memory in 1998.
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