For those with Facebook, and use chat

[Softdreamer]

The new roll out of facebook chat is here.

Seems interesting until you realise EVERY single chat conversation you have is saved. In your inbox of all places.
But if you want to keep you chat secret you can clear chat window! except it still stays in your inbox?!?

Dont panic though, because you can go into your messages and click on the x on the right to get rid of them..

Except that doesnt delete them, because they go into your archive (bottom of the page) and in Archive there is no option to delete them either!
You have to click on each and every conversation and then delete the posts

I wonder, If I am having a private conversation, why should I have to delete it 3 times just to keep it private. and even then Id put money on Facebook storing it online somewhere still

FACEBOOK, invasion of privacy taken to the extreme.

Ive just done a complete search of facebook settings, there is no option to disable this feature anywhere.
I am boycotting facebook chat/messaging service until they patch this.

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[beowulf]

never used facebook chat since you cant 'block' people or 'hide' as on msn/yahoo.............if i want to chat to someone online id use one of them anyway since they are far better

[Muddy]

Facebook is trying to become skynet...

[Teh One Who Knocks]

What's a Facebook?

[Muddy]

What's a Facebook?

A stalkers paradise..

[beowulf]

luddites!

[Teh One Who Knocks]

luddites!

Might as well just sign up at the CIA or FBI website

Actually, the CIA and FBI probably know less about people than Facebook does

[Teh One Who Knocks]

A stalkers paradise..

Exactamundo

[beowulf]

Might as well just sign up at the CIA or FBI website

Actually, the CIA and FBI probably know less about people than Facebook does

lol...its very easy to find out all sorts of things about people without facebook.............btw...........you havnt updated your photoalbum for quite a while

[Teh One Who Knocks]

It's because I use the same screen name for every site and the difference is, all those sites aren't harvesting information about me every time I login there

But someone else uses 'thelancinator' too because some places I can't use my normal screen name ads a login when I sign up

[beowulf]

my point is i didnt even go looking for that..........i found it totally by accident years ago

ive found out all sorts of things about people before now ,.........its not hard............if i had hacking skillz it would be even easier

[AntZ]

What I laugh at is that people at AS. always tried so hard to conceal their identities. Then AS. started a Facebook page and about a dozen regular users made friends with it. You click on them and many of their friends are also AS. regulars, many of whom also used the same AV right next to their real name and other personal information.

In the matter of 15min. I saw the names of many of the frequent AS. users.

[Tank]

never used facebook chat since you cant 'block' people or 'hide' as on msn/yahoo.............if i want to chat to someone online id use one of them anyway since they are far better

thats the same reason i dont use fb chat. i have a few mates that insist everyfuggin time i'm on to start chatting about nothing relevant, i get a message every now and then saying "you havent been on chat for ages how are you?" i have to resist the urge to reply . . . . i have been online, almost every day, its just you piss me off with your incessant jibber jabber so much that its easier to stay ‘offline’.


i could remove them as friends . . . . . but i like to perv on their hot girlfriends holiday pics



anyone i really have to interact with privately either has my number or personal email.

[Softdreamer]

Badly disguising a true identity is one thing, but blatantly recording all communication is another.

If somebody gains access to your account, they now know everything you have ever said whilst on there, even that which you were certain was private and hidden from public view.

Im sure this is breaking privacy laws, regardless of what Facebook has in the EUA and T&C. How would you feel if you found out BT or AT&T (or whichever) were recording all calls for archiving....

and imagine how dangerous some of that information could be to some relationships. We've all said things about people before, now it turns out those things can be accessed, and if recent news stories have told us anything, its that that access is not yours alone.

[Softdreamer]

never used facebook chat since you cant 'block' people or 'hide' as on msn/yahoo.............if i want to chat to someone online id use one of them anyway since they are far better

Actually, you can do this, you can set groups of friends into different categories, (work/family) and go offline in some and online in others