Typing the name of a business contact into my Gmail search bar resurrected an uncomfortable Gchat thread of my last conversation with a college friend in 2009. Trying to start using Facebook again (cringe) to reconnect with old friends but I HATE that fb keeps your entire messenger history around forever so that the first messages I see when I open any convo are from years ago when I was dumb and awkward af (tho I'm still dumb and awk) - 🅰️🅰️ron November 19, 2018 Between Facebook Messenger, Twitter Direct Messages, iMessage, Gchat, and more, everyone’s internet experience is littered with these unspooling, everlasting chat histories, abandoned and picked up again and almost never wiped. While phone calls and in-person conversations start and end, most online chat systems adhere to a rigid standard format: the single, never-ending chat thread. “It just created a lot of anxiety initially.” Shortly after sending her second reply, she realized what had happened.Įven if you weren’t afflicted by the bug, the awkward experience of unintentionally happening upon years-old message histories is universal. “Some were from people I had deliberately not spoken to in a few years,” she says. Thinking they were new, she replied to a couple, including one from an ex. “Many were from the day my partner, Dean, passed away & now I’ve spent my evening in fear of what else I’m going to see.” April Roberts, a public-relations specialist in New York, logged on to her Facebook account Monday and was immediately confronted with a stream of old messages from as far back as 2015. “Thank you for sending me notifications of messages sent over a year old,” one man tweeted. We’re sorry for any inconvenience,” a Facebook spokesperson said in a statement.īut it was still rattling.
#Facebook message undelete software software#
The issue, caused by software updates, has been fully resolved.
“Earlier today, some people may have experienced Facebook resending older messages. It was a bug, and it disappeared quickly. On Monday, a slew of Facebook users logged on to the platform and were bombarded with old chat messages, some from nearly a decade ago, all popping up as new through Facebook Messenger.
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