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The Facebook founder and CEO of parent company Meta is warning Messenger users not to screenshot their chats.
Along with his college housemates, Mark Zuckerberg, then 39, established the social networking site in February 2004.
In 2007, he went on to become the youngest self-made billionaire in the world, and he has been heavily involved in the platform ever since.
In the past, there have been difficulties such as user privacy, among others, and this has drawn political and judicial attention.
And Zuckerberg is currently issuing a strong caution to Facebook users.
He has announced that a Messenger upgrade will alert users if someone captures a communication that is intended to delete after a certain amount of time.
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“New update for end-to-end encrypted Messenger chats so you get a notification if someone screenshots a disappearing message,” Zuckerberg writes in a post.
“We’re also adding GIFs, stickers, and reactions to encrypted chats too.”
The creator of Facebook also revealed a conversation he had with his wife, Priscilla Chan. He cracks a corny joke about a supercomputer, and his wife snaps a picture that shows how the notification will function.
It is extremely similar to a function on Snapchat where your messages and photographs gradually vanish over time.
The Messenger platform recently made it possible for users to set their messages to disappear.
Reports have suggested that the move comes following concerns around security, and a wider debate involving freedom of speech and online safety.
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Vanish Mode is the official name of the function, and you can use it by simply swiping up on your mobile device while in an active chat thread. You can return to normal mode by swiping up once more.
According to a statement from the product managers of Instagram and Messenger, Manik Singh and Bridget Pujals, “We designed vanish mode with safety and choice in mind, so you control your experience.”
It comes after Whatsapp launched a similar feature that makes messages disappear after seven days.
In a statement, a company representative explains: “We’re starting with seven days because we think it offers peace of mind that conversations aren’t permanent while remaining practical so you don’t forget what you were chatting about.
“Our goal is to make conversations on WhatsApp feel as close to in-person as possible, which means they shouldn’t have to stick around forever.”
