The article I read is called, “Over Three Years Later, “deleted” Facebook Photos are Still Online”. The publication date of this article is February 7, 2012. The source of the article is CNN. This article was about pictures that people delete off their Facebook that stay online. The company of Facebook did admit that the program is sometimes slow in motion of getting the pictures offline. When the “deleted” pictures were investigated, the investigation found that the pictures could never be deleted or gone from the system. The reason is that the pictures have links to the pictures and the links will forever stay. There are also many reasons why people would delete pictures. People may delete pictures for fear of the boss seeing, family drama or a friend seeing without permission. Once the picture is put up, you can delete it. If there is a link though, there will always be a way to find the picture. There is something called a photo storage where after photos are deleted they will stay online for a long amount of time. Facebook producers are working hard to get the “deleted” pictures to be gone offline in 45 days. It will take some time, but eventually they will get the process working.
I would have to say I was shocked by this article because I have a Facebook and I use it regularly. I spend a lot of time putting pictures up from events with my family and friends. Of course, there is always that friend that calls or texts the minute you put up the picture. She wants you to take the picture down because she doesn’t like how she looks. It is interesting that the picture might still be up there after you deleted it. I don’t think my friend or even other people would be happy to hear this news. I feel if people did know about this they may be hesitant to put pictures up on Facebook or even create a Facebook.
The company named Ars Technica investigated this situation in 2009 and is probably pretty upset that this is still going on. In addition to this article, you can read more about it if you follow the link below.
Facebook has been the hottest social network on the planet earth for the past 5 years. Millions of people use it and it is indeed a great tool. As for the many reasons that Facebook is good there is just as many for the reason it is bad. The way the picture that you put on Facebook stay on there even when deleted the links stay online. A person not being able to delete old pictures creates away for these most of the time teenagers to loose privacy. If a picture is posted on the web it can be very dangerous if another person gets a hold of it.
ReplyDeleteI was also shocked that this was apparent on Facebook and I wasn’t aware of. It becomes very hard to keep up with all the technical security issues with Facebook. With a lot of past experiences with witnessing of cyber bullying I really think things like pictures need to be stopped from the beginning.
Facebook has been the hottest social network on the planet earth for the past 5 years. Millions of people use it and it is indeed a great tool. As for the many reasons that Facebook is good there is just as many for the reason it is bad. The way the picture that you put on Facebook stay on there even when deleted the links stay online. A person not being able to delete old pictures creates away for these most of the time teenagers to loose privacy. If a picture is posted on the web it can be very dangerous if another person gets a hold of it.
ReplyDeleteI was also shocked that this was apparent on Facebook and I wasn’t aware of. It becomes very hard to keep up with all the technical security issues with Facebook. With a lot of past experiences with witnessing of cyber bullying I really think things like pictures need to be stopped from the beginning.