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Comment from Ben McGann

Why would you put anything online that you wouldn't want to see on the front page of a newspaper?

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Comment from JohnB (SciFiOne)

So, can I share the URL of this page on FB (not Messenger)?(To be honest, I could not understand the actual article.)

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Comment from JohnB (SciFiOne)

From what I could understand, in Messenger there is more information obtained through the link than the original share and can include personal info. Exactly how and the risk level is what I could not...

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Comment from Adam Engst

You can, but the point is that it's possible for someone to discover that link. In the case of this page, there's no confidential information included in the link, but the possibility of a link...

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Comment from Adam Engst

The problem is that people believe (and Facebook encourages them to believe) that one-on-one conversations in Facebook Messenger are private. That's clearly not true, at least when it comes to links.

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Comment from JohnB (SciFiOne)

Thanks Adam.

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