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09-26-2012, 09:03 PM
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#1 | | My homepage has been set to RS
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So apparently, there's been some sort of glitch which has allowed for old FB messages to be posted up on your timeline. Whether this is 100% accurate or not is yet to be confirmed.
Facebook has been denying this report, but going back into your timeline there's definitely things that weren't on there before. If you go back in your timeline from 2007-09, you'll see a single post with all your wallposts from that year. I would hide it just to be safe one way or the other! Quote:
Facebook says reports that private messages are being made public are not true.
Some Facebook users are adamantly insisting that private messages they sent to other members are now appearing on their timelines for others to see.
But Facebook says an investigation suggests that’s not the case.
“A small number of users raised concerns after what they believed to be private messages appeared on their timeline. Our engineers investigated these reports and found that the messages were older wall posts that had always been visible on the users’ profile pages,” reads a statement.
“Facebook is satisfied that there has been no breach of user privacy.”
Facebook is estimated to have more than 900 million users worldwide, including about 18 million in Canada.
Canada’s privacy commissioner Jennifer Stoddart has criticized Facebook in the past for not doing enough to let users control their personal information online.
A spokeswoman said Monday that her office is looking into the user complaints.
“If it’s true it would indeed be troubling (but) ... we don’t yet know for sure what’s happening,” said Anne-Marie Hayden.
“We are currently looking into it although we haven’t launched a formal investigation. We do plan to speak with Facebook’s Canadian representatives to ask what’s happening from their point of view and we’re going to continue to monitor the situation very closely.”
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09-26-2012, 09:20 PM
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#2 | | Rs has made me the man i am today!
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hmm, well, none of my pm's were leaked  | |
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09-26-2012, 09:31 PM
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#3 | | The Lone Wanderator
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My guess is that it's actually posts that were previously marked 'private' or 'certain groups only' but were suddenly made public during one of Facebook's massive overhauls that eradicated a lot of the privacy settings that once existed.
And nobody noticed or cared until you could suddenly jump back to when those posts were made, at which point people started going  | |
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09-26-2012, 09:44 PM
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#4 | | My homepage has been set to RS
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Yeah that makes a lot of sense. Still though, I've definitely seem some.. interesting things so far haha.
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09-26-2012, 09:45 PM
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#5 | | The Lone Wanderator
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I had added my two aunts (had no choice, they were over my shoulders at a family event), but blocked their views to EVERYTHING.
...and then after the last big shift, suddenly there they were, commenting on my wall.
Srsly Facebook, fuck you.
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09-26-2012, 09:46 PM
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#6 | | #deephouse
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That's why you dont use facebook.
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09-26-2012, 09:50 PM
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#7 | | I keep RS good
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that's why you don't hide shit. everything on facebook is public.
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09-26-2012, 09:52 PM
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#8 | | The Lone Wanderator
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Originally Posted by Ulic Qel-Droma  that's why you don't hide shit. everything on facebook is public. | Especially the stuff that isn't.
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09-26-2012, 10:19 PM
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#9 | | My homepage has been set to RS
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It is kind of a pain in the ass going over your account and all the specific settings every fucking time fb decides to change the privacy settings.
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09-26-2012, 10:25 PM
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#10 | | They let me be a moderator. LOL
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I just spent 45 minutes removing a whole bunch of shit from 2007-2011.
...Shit I thought I got rid of.
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09-26-2012, 10:26 PM
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#11 | | The Lone Wanderator
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I'm going to guess it was to people named "Kim" "Park" and "Lee".
...I know mine was.
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09-26-2012, 10:28 PM
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#12 | | I WANT MY 10 YEARS BACK FROM RS.net!
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Originally Posted by Ulic Qel-Droma that's why you don't hide shit. everything on the internet is public. | fixed.
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09-26-2012, 10:45 PM
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#13 | | ...in the world.
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Don't post pictures of your dong on Facebook then.
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09-26-2012, 10:58 PM
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#14 | | In RS I Trust
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Everything I post on fb I don't care if people see if,zero drugs nothing bad cause I have people from work on there and I don't want them to know about that part. I just stick to my cell if I want to send stuff I don't want public
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09-26-2012, 11:02 PM
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#15 | | Where's my RS Christmas Lobster?!
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Anyone know a way to clear your entire timeline of posts?
Should've done it before I got hit with timeline
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09-26-2012, 11:06 PM
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#16 | | Everyone wants a piece of R S...
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Well easy solution is to deactivate your account. srs.
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09-26-2012, 11:07 PM
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#17 | | Even when im right, revscene.net is still right!
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09-27-2012, 12:36 AM
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#18 | | Ready to be Man handled by RS!
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well nobody posts on my wall so im safe | |
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09-27-2012, 01:08 AM
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#19 | | Summertime Sadness
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Just checked... all my PM's from 2007-2010 were all visible to everyone and mixed up with my wall posts so i just ended up hiding everything
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09-27-2012, 06:39 AM
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#20 | | I subscribe to Revscene
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With timeline everything is so disorganized lol
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09-27-2012, 06:49 AM
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#21 | | Willing to sell a family member for a few minutes on RS
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I didn't see anything leak on mine  | |
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09-27-2012, 09:13 AM
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#22 | | Rs has made me the man i am today!
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wtf facebook
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09-27-2012, 10:20 AM
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#23 | | My homepage has been set to RS
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no private messages are shown for me, but previous wall posts that were private are now all visible
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09-27-2012, 10:33 AM
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#24 | | The RS Freebie guru
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A lot of the confusion is 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.]'"
| Even if this were true, it probably also has to do with people's perceptions of what they would or would not post publicly now versus then.
I looked back on my Timeline, and there were a few messages there that I thought should be private, but maybe they were actually publicly posted back then.
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09-27-2012, 10:42 AM
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#25 | | I bringith the lowerballerith
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Another reason why I'm not on FB,don't care to deal with the bullshit that comes with it.
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