Facebook Self-Censorship: They're Still Listening

We’ve all stopped typing during a status update, and thought better of sharing that particular piece of information. Facebook has still been keeping an eye on it. Sauvik Das a PhD student at Carnegie Mellon University and Adam Kramer, a Facebook data scientist, have written a paper about those updates you thought were long gone.

As you type, Facebook holds the text until you post. To do that it has to receive metadata about what you’re typing.