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Facebook's Unsend Feature Will Give You 10 Minutes To Delete a Message (theverge.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the Zuckerberg-powers dept.

Earlier this year, Mark Zuckerberg came under fire after he and other executives removed their Facebook messages from several recipients' inboxes. The move led many to question whether the company would give other users the option to unsend messages. According to Twitter user @MattNavarra, the answer is yes. The feature has been listed as "coming soon" in the release notes for version 191.0 of Messenger's iOS client. The Verge reports: Facebook Messenger will soon allow you to delete sent messages up to 10 minutes after you've originally sent them. Compared to the hour Facebook gives you to delete an erroneous WhatsApp message, 10 minutes doesn't give you too much time to correct yourself. But it's a lot better than having your mistakes preserved eternally.

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  1. New idea by bmimatt · · Score: 3, Funny

    How about we give FB 4 minutes to stop and think about itself?
    Should help everyone.

  2. More and more "wrong messages" will be sent by aglider · · Score: 3, Interesting

    People is already sending messages without reading and thinking.
    This "feature" will give users a false perception and they will rely on it to be more and more careless.
    There's no message sent by error. They are all sent by carelessness.

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    Sent as ripples into the electromagnetic field. No single photon has been harmed in the process.
    1. Re:More and more "wrong messages" will be sent by aglider · · Score: 2

      > Not *all*. Because windows allows focus stealing

      In this case you carelessly chose the OS. :-P

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  3. Re:Funnily enough... by aglider · · Score: 2

    GMail has it. Within 10 or 30 seconds...

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  4. I'm gonna just call "Shenanigans" now... by Timothy2.0 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "10 minutes doesn't give you too much time to correct yourself. But it's a lot better than having your mistakes preserved eternally."

    You can bet your ass they'll be preserved eternally, they may just not be *public*.

  5. Re:General solution: Future delivery by butzwonker · · Score: 2

    How about waiting an hour instead of sending it immediately? You're an adult, aren't you?

    Your feature reminds me of that startup company that wants to monetize a single function they deliver, that your mail is only checked and forwarded to you three times a day.

  6. so presumably by rossdee · · Score: 2

    then the message won't reach the recipient for 10 minutes at least.

    or have they actually invented a time maxhine

    cue Cher: If I could turn back time