Introducing Poke for Mobile

Re:Introducing Poke for Mobile by greenwalls on Friday December 21, 2012 @03:57PM (#4954487)

"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.

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Re:Introducing Poke for Mobile by patrickod on Friday December 21, 2012 @04:40PM (#4954653)

I thought it was proven that previous reports of "private messages" showing up on poeples' Timelines were false and were down to user confusion?

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Re:Introducing Poke for Mobile by nwh on Friday December 21, 2012 @11:50PM (#4955802)

While 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.

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Re:Introducing Poke for Mobile by zdrtx on Saturday December 22, 2012 @11:06PM (#4958540)

Facebook deletes poke data. http://techcrunch.com/2012/12/22/your-facebook-pokes-are-sto...

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Re:Introducing Poke for Mobile by creativityland on Friday December 21, 2012 @04:25PM (#4954588)

The younger kids won't switch from snapchat to this and they seem to be the audience for this kind of feature.

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Re:Introducing Poke for Mobile by TannerLD on Friday December 21, 2012 @05:12PM (#4954791)

Why 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.

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