Facebook Users Report Seeing Old Private Messages Showing Up On Timelines

Re:Facebook Users Report Seeing Old Private Messages Showing... by tisme on Monday September 24, 2012 @03:46PM (#4566569)

"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.

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Re:Facebook Users Report Seeing Old Private Messages Showing... by RobAtticus on Monday September 24, 2012 @03:55PM (#4566620)

Look 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.

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Re:Facebook Users Report Seeing Old Private Messages Showing... by danielweber on Monday September 24, 2012 @04:19PM (#4566755)

This 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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