All over the world people are outraged by the fact that their personal messages from the past years have been exposed on their timeline. Many articles have appeared on the Internet addressing this problem. After stumbling upon one of these articles I decided to check it out myself and indeed after scrolling through my timeline it seemed that there were a lot of messages on my timeline that were of pretty private nature and I can’t image that I would post these things on my facebook ‘wall’ for everyone to see. I quickly deleted all these posts from my timeline and hope nobody has read them yet.
However according to Facebook there wasn’t a glitch in the system and they deny exposing any private messages on facebook timelines. Facebook claims that people are now easier able to scroll through their timelines and then come across messages, when this happens they can’t believe they ever posted certain messages in public.
“A Facebook spokesman told TechCrunch that users are confusing old public Wall posts as old private messages because “before 2009 there were no likes and no comments on wall posts. People went back and forth with wall posts instead of having a conversation [in the comments of single wall post].” The issues appear to have stemmed from the global rollout of Timeline. Facebook says it has conducted its own investigation and “is satisfied that there has been no breach of user privacy.” Despite Facebook’s official statements denying the reports, users are still reporting that their old messages are being exposed for all their friends to see.”
(Raymond Wong, BGR News, Tue, Sept 25, 2012)
Whether or not facebook really is exposing our old private messages and making them available for all your friends and family to see I would advise everyone to scroll through their own timeline and make sure there aren’t any messages on their that you wouldn’t want others to see!
Do you think Facebook might have exposed our private messages on Timeline and are denying all claims or are we really just that dumbfounded about how we used to use Faecbook?
