Users Seeing Old Facebook Wall Posts, Not A Private Message Leak

The 2000's were a simpler era. There was no timeline, MySpace was still the social network of choice, and everything on Facebook wasn't broadcast to the world. So when people started crying foul that Facebook was publishing private messages, they were misguided. Facebook's timeline shows wall posts from 2009 and before, when many people used the wall feature to post messages they believed only the recipient would read.

The 2000’s were a simpler era. There was no timeline, MySpace was still the social network of choice, and everything on Facebook wasn’t broadcast to the world. So when people started crying foul that Facebook was publishing private messages, they were misguided. Facebook’s timeline shows wall posts from 2009 and before, when many people used the wall feature to post messages they believed only the recipient would read.

TechCrunch first reported the “bug,” Monday. It’s been something that Facebook has had all along, but it came more into view with timeline, as it allows users to scroll through their profile by year.

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