In June, the GSMA responsible for RCS finalized the latest standard with the ability to delete a sent message, and Google Messages…

  • @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    English
    2018 hours ago

    Seeing as how text messages are often used as evidence of abuse, cheating, or other awful acts I struggle to see this as a good thing.

    • dudeami0
      link
      fedilink
      English
      318 hours ago

      Agreed, and you know they have a record of these deleted texts internally for their own reasons.

    • @hinterlufer
      link
      English
      -118 hours ago

      That’s certainly an issue, but for me it was already quite useful for deleting unread obsolete messages (e.g. deleting “can you bring milk” after you realized that there still is some), or messages accidentally sent to the wrong person. I think limiting to a short time frame and/or only unread messages would solve most of the possible abuse.

      • dudeami0
        link
        fedilink
        English
        5
        edit-2
        18 hours ago

        Why not just reply “Oh we have milk!”. Why is deleting messages the best course of action when you can just communicate that you were misinformed?

        • @hinterlufer
          link
          English
          114 hours ago

          Sure you can do that, but it’s more work for both parties assuming the message hasn’t been read. I’m just saying that both Signal and WhatsApp have had this feature for quite some time now and it has come in handy for me a few times already.