Is Facebook Really Private?

Shannon Porter Over 3 years later, "deleted" Facebook photos are still online February 2012 CNN.com Facebook: Is It Really Private? In today almost all people use Facebook, or definitely know someone who has a Facebook. Facebook is a means for making staying in touch with people much simpler. It allows all of us to simply type it someone’s name, hometown, school, job, etc. and everyone who has these will show up in a list on your page. When I was younger and growing up the popular site of choice was MySpace.com I was never allowed to have MySpace because my parents worried about the stories they heard on the news. But when you think about it Facebook is almost just as bad; Facebook is almost identical to MySpace except with a few restrictions. Some of the most prominent problems Facebook has faced is the fact that when you delete a picture off of Facebook, it doesn’t actually get deleted. It is removed from the site but if you were to save the URL you would be able to pull up the picture. Scandals due to the inability of Facebook to actually delete pictures have taken place in the media in the past years. An example of this would be the Katie Rees, Miss Nevada scandal which led to Ms. Rees being stripped of her title. She had inappropriate pictures online that she thought were deleted and on a private account but someone found them and showed them to the public. I was always told when I was younger that if I didn’t want someone seeing a picture of me I shouldn’t be agreeing for it to be up on Facebook. I feel that because everyone has such easy access to the Facebook and getting in contact with one another that you must be prepared for someone seeing the pictures that you wouldn’t want them seeing.