NEW YORK: The Urban Dictionary defines the term Text Regret as the “sendingof a text and immediately regretting that you ever wrote the text in thefirst place”. And now, social media giant Facebook in several months willmake available to its users a feature that will save them from this regret.
According to TechCrunch, Facebook plans to launch an “unsend” feature, inseveral months and has already been considering how to build the product.
On a related note, it was earlier reported that the social media platformhad retracted Facebook messages sent by its CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, and a fewother executives from their recipients’ inboxes.
Three sources had confirmed to TechCrunch that old Facebook messages theyhad received from Zuckerberg had disappeared from their Facebook inbox,while their own replies to the co-founder had conspicuously remained.
The company also said that it won’t unsend or retract any more ofZuckerberg’s messages, until the feature is made available to the largeraudience.
Facebook’s subsidiary and instant messaging platform WhatsApp rolled out asimilar feature called ‘Delete for everyone’ in November 2017.