'Threads' Tests Posts That Disappear After 24 Hours (engadget.com) 24
After announcing it had 200 million active users earlier this month, Threads is now "testing the option for users to put a 24-hour expiration timer on their posts," writes Engadget:
A spokesperson confirmed to TechCrunch that the feature is being tested among a group of users after it was first spotted earlier this summer by developer Alessandro Paluzzi...
It comes a few months after Instagram head Adam Mosseri shared that Threads was experimenting with auto-archiving. That optional feature would let users designate a date for their posts to be hidden from the feed. But Threads users in the past have indicated that they largely aren't into the idea of automatic archiving, and such a feature hasn't yet shown up on a wider scale.
It comes a few months after Instagram head Adam Mosseri shared that Threads was experimenting with auto-archiving. That optional feature would let users designate a date for their posts to be hidden from the feed. But Threads users in the past have indicated that they largely aren't into the idea of automatic archiving, and such a feature hasn't yet shown up on a wider scale.
24 hours (Score:2)
24 hour limit just means that someone makes a screenshot of the post, if anyone actually cares about it. Possibly after using dev tools to edit the message.
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Enables you to babble about your daily life and your lunch and politics, while not being held by your old opinions by strangers who come across your profile, or by a future employer you will want to check your profile. It's normal thing to talk politics with friends, but I have expectation that they forget about it quickly. It should be the same when my friends are on the internet and just wanted to comment yesterday's election result without it being a lifelong statement.
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I'll give you that an idiot is born every minute, but other than those, who in this day and age believes that you won't be able to dig up that old stuff anyway? The internet never forgets. Just because you can't find it or don't have access to it doesn't mean nobody can or has.
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I'm a total dumbass -- TheNameOfNick
I can't link to the original post because it was more than 24 hours ago, but the internet never forgets. Source: trust me bro, I would never misquote someone with no evidence.
But yeah, while there might be a bit of protection from the past coming back to haunt you, I just can't see Facebook actually deleting such valuable data instead of using it as a way to extract less self-censored data on their users.
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Enables you to babble about your daily life and your lunch and politics, while not being held by your old opinions by strangers who come across your profile, or by a future employer you will want to check your profile. It's normal thing to talk politics with friends, but I have expectation that they forget about it quickly. It should be the same when my friends are on the internet and just wanted to comment yesterday's election result without it being a lifelong statement.
But ... but ... how would we persecute you for your political opinions of last year?
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So they're enabling rank hypocrisy and covert unacceptable behavior such as antisemitism, racism, and misogyny for people too stupid or short-term to not post that shit on the internet where it can be found by people that disagree and just might be revolted by who you actually are.
Yeah, that's a feature we need in social media. Can't have people telling you who they actually are!
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Of course, if you say something stupid and/or politically divisive enough, it will get screenshotted and reposted for the world to see until the end of time. I personally wouldn't risk it if I'm posting something under my real name.
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Of course, if you say something stupid and/or politically divisive enough, it will get screenshotted and reposted for the world to see until the end of time. I personally wouldn't risk it if I'm posting something under my real name.
It won't completely protect you from going viral in real-time (though it might help a bit), but it does offer some protection against people digging through your social media for dirt several years down the road [theverge.com]. And since no one cares about most the vast majority of posts after a day or so there's not a lot of upside to keeping them around.
On a technical level, I don't know how well Threads is defended against bots auto-archiving everything, but if it can actually toss those posts down the memory hole it c
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https://gabb.com/blog/cyberbul... [gabb.com]
"Snapchat’s disappearing message system leads bullies to believe they can act without consequence"
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Which is what people do for sufficiently dumbass posts already, in order to prevent manual deletion and not drive engagement by having a live link to the dipshittery.
They're working on a solution to a non-existent problem that has already been made moot by 30 year old technology that exists on every single platform capable of perceiving their content they are distributing.
Seems like management and product design is due for some more layoffs.
Would Make a Cesspool of Threats and Lies (Score:3)
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You do when you need non-committal content to boost your engagement numbers.
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Yes, I imagine Threads users might be concerned about the direction the platform is going, but I was unable to reach either of them for comment.
If a tree falls in a forest... (Score:1)
Re: Threads = X for ageing socialists off Facebook (Score:2)
If you think you'll find the truth on X, you've really gone down the deep end. It's a cesspool populated by the most moronic and insipid smooth brained cavemen I've had the displeasure to read messages from.
Yeah right (Score:2)
Everything on the internet is forever. Especially the embarrassing stuff you try to delete yourself.
I don't know about the rest of y'all, but I'm kinda treating my emails, comments, and social media posts as a sort of collected papers and documents, in lieu of the dead tree correspondence stacks of yore.
Auto expiration is kind of at cross purposes to that. I wouldn't use a site that did it.
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Pretend disappearing posts (Score:2)
I had first post! (Score:2)
But unfortunately it seems to have disappeared.
Party like it's 1999 (Score:2)
I think I heard that idea before somewhere else.