Facebook

Alex Di Nardo

Facebook Over 3 years later, "deleted" Facebook photos are still online, Tuesday February 7, 2012 CNN.com Tech ................................................................................ After deleting your Facebook photo or anytime you put your picture online, it is still there for the world to see. It's because other people can take your photos and save them on to their computer. Facebook has stated that their older systems continue to store photos and other information even after people delete their photos or even profiles sometimes. Frederic Wolen’s said in a statement that Facebook is working on a new system that will delete the pictures permanently once a person decides to delete it. Over the last decade there has been occurrences where people have thought their Facebook photos have been deleted but really they haven’t been and other people have found them and either harassed them with these photos. In some instances the photos have caused public outrage in the media an example of this would be when Katie Reese, had her title of Miss Nevada and because of pictures on Facebook of her participating in underage drinking and other scandalous activities she had her title taken back from her. Facebook isn’t the nicest website you’ll ever come across, people report about harassments all the time. In the article that I read, it says, “But when we followed up on the story more than a year later, our "deleted" photos were still accessible via direct link. That's when the reader stories started pouring in: we were told horror stories about online harassment using photos that were allegedly deleted years ago, and users who were asked to take down photos of friends that they had put online.” “Long story short, Wolens claims that Facebook is on the verge of fixing up its content systems so that "deleted" photos are really, truly deleted from the CDN within 45 days. But with the process not expected to be finished until a couple months from now—and unfortunately, with a company history of stretching the truth when asked about this topic—we'll have to see it before we believe it.” I think Frederic Wolen’s and his idea is great for Facebook. People always talk about their photos and are scared other people are looking at them, friends posting ugly photos, bad ones (drinking), and they are worried people are stocking/saving them.