Facebook have developed a new app called Poke which allows users to send a short Facebook private message to another user, including a photo or a short video, that users can set to delete immediately after it has been viewed. So for example, you could send a photo or message to someone else, and withint 10 seconds of that person reading it, the message would "self destruct" leaving no evidence of that conversation on the phone or on that person's facebook account.. Some people are complaining that it could do the following things:
* Encourage cyber-bullying with users able to send threatening messages to others with no evidence kept
* Encourage cheating as people could message each other without their other halves ever finding out
* Encourage sexting among children and teens who will no longer worry that their dodgy photos and videos could be saved / kept by the other person
* Encourage the sharing of child pornography with no evidence left behind
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2012/dec/27/facebook-poke-snapchat-app-thumbs-down
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