What is the technical reason that so many social media sites don't allow you to edit your text?
- by Edward Tanguay
A common complaint I hear about Facebook, Twitter, Ning and other social sites is that once a comment or post is made, it can't be edited.
I think this goes against one of the key goals of user experience: giving the user agency, or the ability to control what he does in the software.
Even on Stackexchange sites, you can only edit the comments for a certain amount of time.
Is the inability for so many web apps to not allow users to edit their writing a technical shortcoming or a "feature by design"?