Tuesday, February 7, 2012

The article that I had read was “over 3 years later, ‘deleted’ Facebook photos are still online. It was about how people who delete their Facebook photos for whatever reason, such as posting an embarrassing picture of a friend hat they do not approve of, or trying to get rid of a photo someone does not want their friend or parents to see. These photos are still available online if you have the direct link for the photo. They claim that this year they are working on having the deleted photos fully deleted within 45 days. The authors that wrote the article said that they have been following the same story for a couple of years now and the problem are still not fixed, despite Facebook saying they are going to fix the problem. After reading this article I thought that it was in a scene breaking the fourth amendment because everyone has their right to privacy. I feel like this is breaking the fourth amendment because if someone’s photo is still online that they believe is deleted, then they should have that secure feeling that their photo is un-retrievable. Since Facebook is so well known and a widely used social network, this shouldn’t have been a problem for so long, because of how popular the network is it would be expected that problems like these would be solved for its users. Even though the photos are immediately removed from the site and your profile it is still un-comforting to think that that photo is still floating around in cyber space that someone can get to with the link. I someone was to have a photo posted of them drinking alcohol for example and they found out they removed it, future employers would still be able to find it and get their hands on the photo, which could potently rein the chances of getting a job. Knowing that any photo that I had deleted could still be around is an un-settling felling. This article proves that Facebook is not as professional as they themselves claim and people think they are.

1 comment:

  1. I think this article is extremely interesting because I had no idea that it took as long as it did to erase photos on Facebook. Knowing this makes people wonder if people are still going out and looking at deleted photos of children that should have never been posted or pictures of alcoholic beverages with kids after they erased them. I agree with abbey on how Facebook is such a successful network it should have never waited this long and they should be prepared for a little problem like this. Abbey really put the situation into perspective. She explained the situation well and I love the way she worded her opinion. I never really thought that they would be failing at such a small internet problem. Maybe as a random Facebook user you do not really think of things like this, because we automatically expect a major corporation that’s so successful to have everything right.

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