March 28, 2024
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Few months ago it was reported that Facebook was planning to implement a unsend feature in Messenger to let you unsend messages. And after multiple trials, the feature is now Available in a few countries

The unsend feature for Messenger was promised seven months ago when Facebook secretly removed some private messages sent by CEO Mark Zuckerberg. In the past few weeks, screenshots of the new feature surfaced along with an updated preview that was released last week.

Now at the moment, the new feature is available only for users in Colombia, Poland, Bolivia, and Lithuania and is expected to be rolled out all over the world very soon.

You can use the new feature to remove a message from recipients’ inboxes within 10 minutes of sending it. After that time limit, you can still delete the message from your window, but it will remain in the recipients’ inboxes. But even after deleting a message, Facebook will retain it a little longer to check if it has been marked for abuse.

Facebook is also reportedly working on related features, such as the ability to set messages or chat logs to expire after a marked period of time. While these might indeed come in handy for maintaining your privacy, Facebook must also ensure that the feature doesn’t empower bullying.

Facebook’s head of Messenger Stan Chudnowsky said in his interview: We need to make sure we don’t open up any new venues for bullying. We need to make sure people aren’t sending you bad messages and then removing them because if you report them and the messages aren’t there we can’t do anything.

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