Mark Zuckerberg is warning Facebook Messenger users not to screenshot their chats.
Zuckerberg co-founded the social media service Facebook alongside his university roommates.
He’s now the chairman, chief executive officer and controlling shareholder of its parent company Meta Platform.
His early career, legal troubles and initial success with Facebook was even turned into a film called The Social Network.
But Zuckerberg is sending a reminder – and warning – to Facebook users… don’t screenshot your chats.
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Basically, Facebook launched a feature in 2020 that made messages disappear on Facebook and Instagram called Vanish Mode.
Vanish Mode ensured messages disappeared after the recipient had seen them and left the chat.
At the time, Facebook said: “Sometimes a message is just spontaneous – something you want to say in the moment without worrying about it sticking around. That’s why we’re excited to introduce Vanish Mode on Messenger, which lets you send messages that disappear automatically.”
This feature could be turned on by swiping up on a mobile device in an existing chat thread. It could be set back to the original mode by a user swiping up on their screen again.
Bridget Pujals, Messenger Product Manager, and Manik Singh, Instagram Product Manager, said in a statement (via USA Today): “We designed