Norman has always told me that when I delete stuff on Facebook that it actually never gets deleted. Well, it turns out that he is right. According to research done at Cambridge University, a number of websites that allow users to upload photos also has the habit of keeping them around when a user decides to remove them.
They kept a track of the permalinks that went to individual photos and then deleted them and checked back after 30 days. To their surprise, 7 out of 16 sites still had the photos available for viewing. One of those sites is the major social networking site, Facebook. I guess it’s pretty naive of me to think that anything posted on the internet can be private or removed. Once it’s there, it’s there forever…
Good stuff, I “Stumbled” you. My DIGG account got messed up but I like Stumbling better anyway.