Earlier today I got an IM from a friend of mine, he sent me
a link, told me to look at it. Surprisingly, it was a wall post in my wall! Obviously
I knew that post and I just didn’t understand the point of him sending me that
link. Well, after that I didn’t get any reply from him, so I couldn’t stop
myself and I finally asked him about the link he sent me. Astonishingly, he
replies “which link”! Well, nothing irritates me more that this type of reply
and after some spicy chat he tells me to click the link again and to my utter
surprise, I see nothing there! This is the screenshot of what I saw:
Now it was really shocking, because there is no chance on
earth he knew my password neither did he live nearby so that he might have
sneaked into my place and deleted the post. I was unable to understand how the
hell he do it and all I see in the chat box are smileys illustrating nothing
but victory! Yeah, he actually trolled me for some time while I kept on asking
him how did he do it. Anyway, after all that funny part, he told me about this
bug in facebook which made anyone delete posts in their friend’s timeline,
provided he has access to his/her wall and there are no images in that post. He
also told me that people actually screwed Mark Zuckerberg’s (Well, if you don’t
know who he is, don’t read this post!) profile, and yeah, all his recent public
posts were deleted and his profile looked like nothing but a sample mock
design! (Yes, his recent post where he clarified that he had nothing to do with
the PRISM program, which was quoted at many news sources, was also deleted).
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| Screenshot of Zuck's Timeline taken from my profile. |
It’s really hard for me to imagine that Facebook, a website
which probably has the second largest number of users (Of course after google),
can suffer with a bug THIS big. And my friend kept on trolling his friends just
like this.
Facebook has a very good reporting channel, through which we
can report any post which we feel was harassing us or our friends. After
thorough checking of the posts, if facebook finds that the report was genuine,
the post was removed and the concerned person would get a notification, saying
that the post was removed. They also sent a warning message to the person whose
post was deleted although they never let them know who reported them. Good,
right?
Now what happens when this whole system goes drunk? (That’s
what I will call it!) This is what happened a couple of days ago. After someone
reported a post, selected the option which says ‘harassing my friend’ and then
reported the same to facebook, within seconds a notification appears that the post
was reviewed and deleted! Whoa! Hang on there facebook… how come you made a
review so fast! Well, that is the whole point. Posts were getting auto deleted
without any review. And here my friend kept on reporting posts of his friends!
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| See how fast were the notification coming after the report! |
I just hope that facebook rectifies this problem as soon as
possible, and till the time being, if you were lucky enough to read this post,
go on, have fun! (You know what I mean ;)
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