Facebook Retracted Zuckerberg's Messages From Recipients' Inboxes (techcrunch.com)

An anonymous reader shares a report: You can't remove Facebook messages from the inboxes of people you sent them to, but Facebook did that for Mark Zuckerberg and other executives. Three sources confirm to TechCrunch that old Facebook messages they received from Zuckerberg have disappeared from their Facebook inboxes, while their own replies to him conspiculously remain. An email receipt of a Facebook message from 2010 reviewed by TechCrunch proves Zuckerberg sent people messages that no longer appear in their Facebook chat logs or in the files available from Facebook's Download Your Information tool. Casey Newton, a reporter at The Verge, tweeted, "Deleting Mark's messages while leaving the recipients' intact highlights Facebook's actual views on privacy better than any statement it makes on the subject ever will"

Update: Facebook has just announced that it will give all users an option to unsend messages.

Comments

Re:Stop using Facebook

[Anonymous Coward]

don't worry, they can put together quite a nice profile of you from all of your friends and family that still use it.

Re:Their servers, their service

[e432776]

The sad mistake by the public seems to be thinking that their correspondence on Facebook actually belongs to them. This sort of event shows that is absolutely not the case.

Keep your bits on your own machines, kids!

As for Facebook and Mr. Zuckerberg: Have you no shame? This sort of move looks terrible. Perhaps you have no brain.