Are You Deleting Facebook Messages Or Unknowingly Saving Them?

You might find yourself, on occasion, the recipient or sender of hostile or just plain weird Facebook messages. And you likely delete these messages after a period of time by clicking the handy "X" to the right of each one. If this all rings true so far, know that all of those conversations are still there, waiting to come back to haunt you.

PerplexedWomanCellPhone650You might find yourself, on occasion, the recipient or sender of hostile or just plain weird Facebook messages. And you likely delete these messages after a period of time by clicking the handy “X” to the right of each one. If this all rings true so far, know that all of those conversations are still there, waiting to come back to haunt you.

As The Daily Dot recently pointed out, merely deleting messages from your Facebook inbox by pressing the X does not delete them – rather, “it is sent to your archived folder.”

Say what?

It’s actually kind of silly to not catch.

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