Comments on: France calms fears over Facebook Timeline scare

By: spotmagicsolis

spotmagicsolis — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 04:37:42 +0000

You all know that your fb private messages are all monitored, right?

By: Geek

Geek — Sun, 07 Oct 2012 08:55:37 +0000

This is not rumor! My friend’s private message has been displayed in public which was really embarrassing and due to this, she deactivated her account. Facebook needs to fix it soon!

By: m

Mon, 01 Oct 2012 19:36:38 +0000

i dont believe facebook is looking out for its users. Ive had both my private messages on my wall and then also put into a cousins email. If there is a service that is called private messages why change everything on your users without notice. It is also remarkable the posts showing up are some of the most private! I don’t believe this is a rumour, I have deactivated my account and will never trust that site again.

By: kori

kori — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 15:21:32 +0000

I agree. I’ve been researching this for a few days since finding private messages my sister had sent and I witnessed posted publicly. This is not a “rumor” or ignorant part on the user! And Facebook needs to grow some balls and instead of making lame excuses I sure hope they are working on solving the issue. I didn’t see anything on my account personally but a couple nonembarassing posts but I stilll deleted my account. The posts on my sisters account were private messages from last week…explain this Facebook

By: Clo

Clo — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 17:34:07 +0000

I always hate when crazy left wing extremist trolls on comment boards called people Sheeple. But this is the only way to describe this situation. Are there no journalists out there with their own Facebook accounts? It will take them about 15 minutes to realize Facebook is feeding them garbage. They may be classified as wall posts now, but it’s clear that what were once chat/private messages, are now visible amongst wall posts on your timeline. My memory goes back far enough to remember having a chat conversation with someone a few years ago.

By: Ryan G.

Ryan G. — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 21:36:10 +0000

I love how they simply “now accepted Facebook’s explanation that the “messages” were simply old public Wall posts that became visible once more.” Because investigating is useless when you can have an upstanding ‘person’ like a corporation assure you everything is all right.

As someone who thought this was bunko to begin with, my view was very quickly changed when I saw very private, SEXUAL messages I said to my spouce on my timeline. Given that my children are friends of both our accounts, I can – with 100% assurity – attest that this is real. We do NOT discuss our sex lives on our public walls. Ever.

And a corporation covering thier own flaw in programming by claiming that “everyone else’s memory is flawed” simply does not hold water in the least.