If you open Messenger on your phone and press out down on a subject matter , you ’ll get an selection to delete it . This is very misleading . “ Delete ” only cancel the content in your own inbox . The recipient role still has that accidental picture or ill - notify joke still sitting in their inbox and you may not even be aware of it . Most importantly , for Facebook , that message still remain on its servers . But TechCrunchfoundthat Zuckerberg had gone back as far as 2010 to unsend some of his own message , including messages send to non - Facebook employees .
Facebook recognize that it was giving its top executive privacy choice that were n’t uncommitted to drug user and promise to add “ a broader delete substance feature article ” to the Messenger app . At the time , a Facebook interpreter told Gizmodo that until that feature was ready , it would “ no longer be delete any executive ’ substance . ”
On Tuesday , Facebookannouncedthat the new unsend option is currently rolling out to the Messenger app on Android and iOS . All you ’ll have to do is tap the subject matter you want to delete and prime “ Remove for Everyone ” within ten moment of send a subject matter . Gizmodo attempted to test the feature on two updated iPhones , but it was n’t usable for us yet . A Facebook interpreter told us that it ’s still roll out on the app store and to give it some time .
Mark Zuckerberg was n’t restricted to a ten - minute windowpane , but when we asked Facebook if all executives will be held to the same limitation as users we were tell that the modification will go for to everyone including Facebook employee . A representative also confirmed that deleted messages will finally be removed from Facebook ’s servers for good , but it will be retain for “ a circumscribed amount of prison term ” just in case someone need to report revilement .
Messenger does havea cloak-and-dagger messagefeature that has an selection to cancel message based on a timer , but it can only be enable for individual conversation .
It seems Facebook is handling the remotion of messages from its host just mightily , but it ’s almost comical that it wo n’t just give everyone the choice to delete their own communication any meter they wish . The societal connection has one of the worst reputation for privacy in the corporate world , and it wo n’t give an inch when it comes to perchance losing what would likely be a little amount of data .
[ FacebookviaTechCrunch ]
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