Withdrawal of a message sent in a social networking system

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having instructions stored therein, which when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations, the operations comprising:

• receiving, by a user device, an input to send a first message to a first recipient;
• processing, by the user device, the first message for transmittal to the first recipient;
• detecting within a timeout period, by the user device, a first request to withdraw the first message;
• determining, by the user device in response to detecting the first request, that the first message has not been sent from the user device;
• and
• terminating, by the user device in response to the determination that the first message has not been sent, the processing of the first message for sending.