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Facebook Now Lets Everyone Unsend Messages For 10 Minutes (techcrunch.com)
Facebook has finally made good on its promise to let users unsend chats after TechCrunch discovered Mark Zuckerberg had secretly retracted some of his Facebook Messages from recipients. From a report: Today Facebook Messenger globally rolls out "Remove for everyone" to help you pull back typos, poor choices, embarrassing thoughts, or any other message. For up to 10 minutes after sending a Facebook Message, the sender can tap on it and they'll find the delete button has been replaced by "Remove for you", but there's now also a "Remove for everyone" option that pulls the message from recipients' inboxes. They'll see an alert that you removed a message in its place, and can still flag the message to Facebook who'll retain the content briefly to see if its reported.
The feature could make people more comfortable having honest conversations or using Messenger for flirting since they can second guess what they send, but it won't let people change ancient history. The company abused its power by altering the history of Zuckerberg's Facebook's messages in a way that email or other communication mediums wouldn't allow.
The feature could make people more comfortable having honest conversations or using Messenger for flirting since they can second guess what they send, but it won't let people change ancient history. The company abused its power by altering the history of Zuckerberg's Facebook's messages in a way that email or other communication mediums wouldn't allow.
This sounds like a great way of spinning a 10 minute delay in delivery time. 10 minute undo == 10 minute transmission delay to enable message batching and caching.
"Man is nothing without the works of man" -- Helvetius
and of course, /. comments are stuck in the early 90's where you need to have an explicit newline. This is retarded...
A problem with recindable messages is that someone can post something threatening or false and then remove it after the person or people had seen it. Facebook can remove it, your brain can't. This will probably lead to a whole new set of problems.
I reserve the write to mangle english.
I think /. is stuck in the LATE 90's. And that is NINTEEN-90s.
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So now comes the FaceBook message archive app to save those nasty messages before they disappear.
Seems like it would be a good idea for all electronic communication to have a configurable delay/undo -- you're done with the message, hit send, and then reread and realize it could be more intelligible, complete, better tone, etc, and then want to change something. Sometimes it just looks different once it's sent.
[Da] or [Nyet]
I don't think this puts in a delay. I think it lets you retract it. The end user could screen shot it, but the official message is deleted.
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
Make the threats, then unsend them.
Threat sent.
No evidence.
When Fascism comes to America, it will call itself Anti-Fascism, and tell you to give up your guns.
Wait... is there a Slashdot unsend?
I think you mean Carriage Return + Linefeed. Linefeed just rolls the platen up one line, but does not return the carriage to the left hand position.
I'll see your senator, and I'll raise you two judges.
No evidence.
No crime.
I'll see your senator, and I'll raise you two judges.
Just send an octal 012 code. Nubz.
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It's actually a great model if you are trying to save some cash on caching if you know your content will be read only after a certain time period.