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In the following CNN article, "Over 3 years later, "deleted" Facebook photos are still online", Ars Technica brings light to a situation with one of America's favorite social network site. Facebook is a social networking site that was founded by Mark Zuckerberg back in 2004. The site now in 2012 has over 845 million active users. Facebook is used to connect with friends and family through statuses, pictures, messages and comments. Adding Pictures to your Facebook page is a big role on what people do on the site. Many people have had their Facebook page for awhile now, and the pictures get old and they delete them. People assume they are deleted from the internet, and no one will be able to see them again, but they are wrong. Does deleting pictures from Facebook get deleted from the server? No, they do not and that is what light Ars is bringing onto the situation. 

"The problem: "deleted" photos never go away"

The problem was first found in 2009 and still to this day it still is a problem. Facebook blames it  on their CDN (content delievery network) and they are working on to fix the problem. 

"The systems we used for photo storage a few years ago did not always delete images from content delivery networks in a reasonable period of time even though they were immediately removed from the site," Facebook spokesperson Frederic Wolens told Ars via e-mail.

 Facebook is working on the problem to have it fixed so when someone deletes a picture, it is removed from the CDN within 45 days which seems to be in a timely matter. People have been complaining because one father's friend posted a picture of his baby naked on his lawn, and did not want sex offenders to see his baby. Other people have deleted pictures that could prevent them from getting jobs, but job employers could still find them. 




People are not responsible with what pictures they decide to upload up on the internet, and this especially goes for teenagers, and college students. They do not think about the consequences of posting pictures of underage drinking, and smoking up on their Facebook page. When I see pictures of underage college students with a clearly visible alcohol container, I find them to be naive and stupid. They do not realize that employers do look at their Facebook, and they can either get a job based on their Facebook, or not get the job because of the pictures on Facebook.