Important Info For Facebook Users

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Important info for Facebook users Sep 28, 2012
Dear Facebookers - Your private inbox messages are now visible for all to see, from 2007 and later. This could get VERY awkward, very quickly...this is a new change from Facebook as of yesterday. Don't believe me? Read your timeline from those years...yikes! They look like wall posts.....they are not!

There's an easy fix--when you're in your own timeline, just click on the year on the right (2007..., 2008, 2009) and you'll see a box with a bunch of friends' messages and a header that says 89 people have written on Brian's timeline--hover over the right until you see the pencil, click and select hide from timeline. do that for each year.

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Re: Important Info For Facebook Users Sep 28, 2012
pfft
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Re: Important Info For Facebook Users Sep 29, 2012
Sadly Nuc, it's awful what FB have done! Allowing all and sundry to see private messages in a persons time-line?
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Re: Important Info For Facebook Users Sep 29, 2012
Yup, this is not the first time FB has done something like this.

--- Sat Sep 29, 2012 12:29 pm ---

They are saying it is not true http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/techn ... -1B6071010
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Re: Important Info For Facebook Users Sep 29, 2012
They can say it's not true all they like - I checked my TL and sure enough, there they are.
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Re: Important Info For Facebook Users Sep 29, 2012
I've checked my FB. My private messages aren't visible. I can only see messages people have actually posted on my wall.

My cousin sent me a private message yesterday and it's definitely not on my timeline.
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Re: Important Info For Facebook Users Sep 29, 2012
I have also tried to check as per the details provided above and I do not find any problem
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Re: Important Info For Facebook Users Sep 30, 2012
It's not in the current time line, but from previous years, so if you click on 2011 or before you"ll see a cluster saying blah blah and however many people posted on your wall. It seems it's a problem for some but not for others. Mysteriously though it seems to be on the mend the last day or so.
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