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Re:Facebook Users Report Seeing Old Private Messages Showing... by zabar on Monday September 24, 2012 @03:09PM (#4566362)
well, that's because your outbound messages are on your friends's wall, not yours.
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Re:Facebook Users Report Seeing Old Private Messages Showing... by wilfra on Monday September 24, 2012 @03:27PM (#4566459)
correct, if u go back and forth you can read whole conversations.
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Re:Facebook Users Report Seeing Old Private Messages Showing... by drbawb on Monday September 24, 2012 @04:01PM (#4566651)
This fact alone may also add a bit of credibility.

If they were originally wall posts, your "threads" of conversation would be comments, not individual posts on each other's walls.

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Re:Facebook Users Report Seeing Old Private Messages Showing... by bwaldrep on Monday September 24, 2012 @05:29PM (#4567104)
Not true. This is the source of all the confusion. Originally you couldn't like or comment on wall posts. Conversations were individual posts on each other's walls. You could click the "wall-to-wall" link to view the whole conversation.

This system gave conversations a different feel, and is now causing people to confuse them with private messages.

Edit: see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4566956

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