Following the news that Mark Zuckerberg used an "unsend" feature to remove some of his messages from inboxes, there a report that Facebook intends to offer this feature to all, in the coming months.
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.
This is certainly not Facebook's idea. The EU GDPR makes this kind of feature mandatory. The right to be forgotten and the right to have your data permanently deleted mean that anyone should be able to delete these messages.
lucy24
7:11 pm on Apr 6, 2018 (gmt 0)
Now, wait a minute. If someone sends me a letter by snailmail, I own that letter. (Not the copyright on its text. Just the physical letter.) There are absolute limits on what I can do with it, but they don't get it back.
It would be different if it applied only to letters that haven't yet been read. Didn't AOL use to have this feature?
tangor
12:32 am on Apr 7, 2018 (gmt 0)
Unsend has been around for a while. What's creepy about the recent revelation is that it was used only for FB executives and not made a feature for the SM platform from the get go. Got caught, now will become a feature.
What FB looks like AFTER all these things---which should have been there all along---will be interesting to observe. And the Hits Just Keep Coming....
