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Good one, Daniel. I LOL'd.

Love it! "If you every made a typo ..." Ha ha ha ha! Laugh with me!

Its a feature I have asked for for over a year... I like it.

Begs a few questions: what if you leave a supporting comment, and the original post gets changed to something you *don't* support? Will you look like a fraud? Will you be notified of the changes?

OakAlley, on 22 June 2012 - 11:39 AM, said:

I would presume anyone who cared could compare the timestamp of your post to the edit history on the thing to which you were responding.

"Just don’t think this is not trackable. Facebook also has introduced editing history for comments. This means that, once you make an edit, the time stamp for the comment will change and will show “Edited” next to it."

Defeats the whole point.

QCassidy352, on 22 June 2012 - 11:54 AM, said:

Why is that?

Stewsburntmonkey, on 22 June 2012 - 12:53 PM, said:

As a typo edit, not much (unless you're one of those people who criticize others for misspellings in their online socializing and you use it because you yourself goofed, they can see it). But for a way to address hot-headed posts that were a bit extreme once the moment cooled this offers no recourse. Your original, potentially libeling, post still exists. Why edit, might as well leave it. It would be one thing if one could view edits on his/her own account; it's completely different to let everyone STILL see what you didn't want them to.

Jasonmwa, on 22 June 2012 - 01:20 PM, said:

I think that was the point of not allowing edits in the first place. If you're going to post inflammatory things, you deserve to get called out for your douchebaggery--even if you changed your mind after you sobered up. But if you "every" made an honest mistake and wanted to correct it, or maybe you didn't quite express yourself as clearly as you'd thought and wanted to re-write your comment to more accurately reflect what you wanted to say, now you have a mechanism to do so. And anyone who cared to look at your original, un-edited post would get the impression that you actually cared about getting it right.

Well, with that "edit history" thing as a spoiler, there went MY first notion, which ran along the lines of posting some line, like "Hey, what's red and bad for your teeth... ...a brick" and THEN when someone followed with a "ROFLMFAO!" or "Hahaha!" going back and changing my entry above the reply to "I was fired from my job today." or "I just learned my best friend died in an accident."

Tons of fun, no?

So with twisted minds (like mine for even thinking of it) around, there's lots of scenarios beyond typos and recanting that fb basically had to think through to prevent utter chaos in the system.

Otherwise, this could be abused by jilted lovers and friends, bullies, to make others look like asses in political exchanges, and make others' replies that weren't responding to anything sexual seem as if they were - the possibilities are endless.

And even as is, a new commenting sub-genre of multiply re-edited exchanges (snarky and/or serious) between people may emerge for a few.

Not to mention that most have no idea how many times material from facebook pictures and conversations is subpoenaed as evidence in all kinds of cases. Most commonly, I understand in divorce trials, parole violation hearings and by employers to justify challenged terminations.

It's amazing what many - with every reason not to - will put out in public (evidence of cheating on spouses or using drugs after being released on a drug conviction) in hopes of a "like".....