Yeah, I didn't comment on the last thread, but I was pretty sure I found some (innocent) messages posted. They were me and my friends making plans, we wouldn't put that on each others walls.
But, is it on your page for everyone to see? Has anyone looked at that? Or is it just on your page when YOU are look g at it? Does that make sense?
The question is - does it matter? Even if they were just you and g, do you really trust facebook enough for it to stay that way?
Even if it's just me right now who can see them, I don't want my messages inbox on my timeline.
And I want facebook, when they make unhelpful changes, to just default things to "private, only I can see" until I decide to change it to more public. Send me a damn message saying "hey! New feature, here's how you share with everyone" instead of surprising me with "now the entire world, people you don't even know can see your facebook!"
I went through mine quickly and didn't find anything that looked out of the ordinary, but checked some friend's pages and saw some interesting things that I'm sure weren't meant for public consumption. Effing facebook.
Just a note - I hid all mine using the directions from that article, but when I went back to double check it, some posts were still there. (Not PMs, but I never had PMs out there to begin with, so you might want to double check just in case). I had to manually hide all of the leftover posts one by one. Annoying.
I just spent the better part of half an hour digging through and deleting things. I hope my friends that I might have had inappropriate conversations with are smart enough to do the same.
So someone explain to me, do you have scroll all the way back to like 2008 on your timeline to see if you have anything posted? Is there a faster way to check? Eeek.
So someone explain to me, do you have scroll all the way back to like 2008 on your timeline to see if you have anything posted? Is there a faster way to check? Eeek.
You can click on the year on the right-hand side of the timeline. But you do have to scroll through all of the messages in that year to check to see if anything was posted.
The problem with FB messages is that they're never deleted. Just archived. And once they're in archive, you can only mark them as unread, or put them back into the inbox. So they're all still on FB.
you can go to your archived messages and delete them.
I assume what happened in the case of my H is that the ex hadn't deleted the messages and that's why they got posted - I just went and looked and he didn't have any archived messages. All of the messages he had deleted a couple years ago weren't in his inbox either.
Are these the instant messages/chats or the messages? I didn't see anything weird on my timeline, thankfully, and I haven't seen anything on any friends' walls either.