Those of you on Facebook your 2006 to 2009 private messages are now public on your timeline
 

I did a search and didn't see anybody else post on this. I just checked my own account and that was the case. I checked a few of my industry friends and all the same thing public private messages. Just a heads up to get that removed.

Here is a link about it
http://www.haverhillecho.co.uk/news/...tips-1-4305508

http://business.financialpost.com/20...melines-false/

Also I dont see anything in my timeline

wonderful....

Facebook private message rumour is 'false', site says

somebody is telling porkys

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19699205

Im suprised people do not delete private messages either

I saw mine and just looked up 5 to 10 friends and more than half had private messages public

Sean check yours. Unless those were all public exchanges it looks like yours are public.

I started FB late 09- I'm good lol

Sure they weren't conversations before the whole instant chat feature?

How would you know if your friends posts you were seeing weren't public to begin with?

I looked at mine and saw some that I'm quite confident were private. Looking at others they may not be private but based on the content they sure as hell seem private. Phone numbers etc.

If i'm wrong i'm wrong. Definitely worth reviewing. From what i've seen it looks like there is some sort of private exchanges that landed on timeline

Yeah I recall posting phone numbers on facebook alot more often, i believe people were alot more naive and facebook felt alot more private.

Im going through my friends profiles now, nothing looking private. Plus these are people who are computer illiterate and dont check their profiles often so I am confident they haven't removed anything

It's the problem, that isn't a problem, that's a big problem for Markie Z.! :1orglaugh

...damn :(

Good thing after Im done PM ing someone I always delete them box

Those articles are dated or refer to an event from several days ago, so if it really was a SNAFU by FB I'm sure it would be fixed by now.

It's probably more a case of FB displaying things that the user could see anyway (IF they went hunting for it), but now it just gets displayed more prominently. Like your news feed showing when your friend comments on something, and what they said... a year ago you would have only seen this if you viewed their wall... and you would have had to click on the link to read the content.

It's not a privacy breach but every little change like this does increase the creepy factor.

Facebook ?

I think someone try to pull my leg

a lot of things used to be posted as public when they were comments on a status but most people didn't realize at the time so would post quite private information and mistakenly think it was hidden. timeline has just made them notice it being visible several years too late.

http://www.businessinsider.com/faceb...olution-2012-9

:)

You gotta be a damn fool to put personal information on a site like Facebook lol...

No they are not.

:2 cents:

I post jokes, parties and pics of my kids. They can have fun with that all day long and I could care less.

All my porn connections are very respectful about NSFW. It's mainly my non-porn friends that post booty pages and babe pics.

I have more porn friends than high school friends lol. ... It's open and everybody can see my page :)

YEP

:pimp

Is anyone surprised?

Google and Facebook want to outlaw privacy.

no they are not, you dont know anymore what you wrote those days.

I always found it silly to update your personal life and comment to all your friends on that site. That's just me though.

Shap, do you have any good ventures going on? I have a really good one and just wondering if you're still looking for a place to invest?

mjmj 00 aol

nothing on my shit line

*shrug*

The only reason I use Facebook is to snoop on others, who are dumb enough to post personal shit on there.

there were a few in my timeline from 2009, the year I joined facebook. This may be the last straw for me and I might take down my personal account

cool story bro :)

I went through and saw some things that I didn't think were supposed to be public. They were all bunched together in on pane (1 for each year).

I just trashed the pane.

i deleted all my personal accounts and only have a fake account to catch up with people

All of you deleting your accounts/info, you do realize the data isn't gone, right?

yep i sure do but what else can i do

Some messages I am 90% sure were private are now being shown on my Timeline.

Exactly same here. Which is why i posted this.

Yep I know what you mean. I know most people say this was fake and not true. But I've seen quite a bit with my own (and some friends) that suggests otherwise.

shap's right, i saw plenty of steamy private shit. apparently it didn't affect everyone though, making those who saw shit look like we saw a bigfoot or UFO

For a while FB's CDN was taking several months to delete images. The references via FB were deleted immediately, but you could still fetch the image URLs directly.

I know that's not quite what you meant, but it shows that even "consumers" can access data long after it's supposedly deleted.