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Question from Anthony: If I send a message to someone on Facebook Messenger but then immediately change my mind and delete it, will the other person still see it?
I got mad at my girlfriend and sent her a really mean message. I’m afraid if she sees it she’ll break up with me.
I deleted the message less than 30 seconds after I sent it.
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]
Question from Karla P.: I know that if I look at someone’s Facebook profile it’ll tell me if we have any mutual friends (and how many mutual friends we have).
What I need is some way to find out if two Facebook users have mutual friends with each other (not with me).
In other words, is there a way to find out if “John Doe” and “Jane Doe” have any mutual friends?
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]
As you probably know by now, Twitter recently announced that a glitch has caused every Twitter user’s password to (possibly) be leaked to hackers.
In order to mitigate any damage caused by the data leak Twitter has strongly recommended that all users change the passwords on their accounts right away.
Since that announcement was made I’ve received several requests for instructions for resetting the password on Twitter. That got me to thinking that maybe I should write those instructions up in a blog post. [Read more…]
Yesterday Facebook started testing a new way to combat “hate speech” on their platform and I wrote a post explaining why I think it’s a very bad idea.
Some folks believed the strange “Does this post contain hate speech?” question that was displayed on every post in some users’ newsfeeds was simply a glitch and not something that Facebook was really testing.
Well, it was indeed a real test, but it was apparently rolled out prematurely and it quickly went off the rails. [Read more…]
As you surely already know, the opinions and attitudes of Facebook users vary widely.
After all, with 1.5 billion users there are going to be people expressing opinions that don’t exactly match with those of other users.
Unfortunately, some of the views expressed in the posts, memes and videos can be quite offensive to some users.
But at what point does a post cross the line into what is commonly referred to nowadays as “hate speech”?
Well, Facebook has come up with a plan to find out, and they want you to help!
Starting today, some users are now seeing this question on every post that shows up in their newsfeed: [Read more…]