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BBM update will bring Message Retraction, Timed Messages and more

qbnkelt

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Just tried the timed message and it's way after five seconds and it still hasn't gone out.
Pretty useless.
And with the retracted message it tells you a message as retracted which will only open up the "what did you say?!!?!!" questions.


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Just tried the timed message and it's way after five seconds and it still hasn't gone out.
Pretty useless.
And with the retracted message it tells you a message as retracted which will only open up the "what did you say?!!?!!" questions.


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Ow wow...what a ridiculously bad implementation. What exactly is the point of it then? If you're retracting a message that you don't want read, why would you leave a breadcrumb trail for someone to ask questions?
 

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Ow wow...what a ridiculously bad implementation. What exactly is the point of it then? If you're retracting a message that you don't want read, why would you leave a breadcrumb trail for someone to ask questions?

It's supposedly a security feature.

So let's see.....you say something then you realise you shouldn't have said it and go oooooooops and retract it.

Too late. The recipient already knows you've said something you shouldn't. Therefore you're not being 1) discreet and 2) wise in your choices 3) trustworthy 4) believable because you're not being transparent with some information.

As a manager, if I saw this, I would find the whole exchange suspect. I would not trust anything before or after.

As a parent, the child will be grounded for the rest of his/her natural life because I won't trust anything before and after.

As a woman.....the man should pick up the best shovel he can find for that hole is has just started up....


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Ow wow...what a ridiculously bad implementation. What exactly is the point of it then? If you're retracting a message that you don't want read, why would you leave a breadcrumb trail for someone to ask questions?

I wouldn't worry about blackberry, at last count they had less than 40 million handset users left, that's it. That equals to roughly a quarters worth of iPhone sales.
 

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