Your Deleted Social Network Pics Are Probably Still There

The Internet has eyes. Anyone can take a picture with their cell phone and upload it to Facebook in seconds. It's both amazing and scary. Now, to find out that it's all still up there, even after you told that guy/girl who snapped that picture through the window to take it down.

Big Brother is watching you....Always......

psiokinetic

No matter what your privacy settings are, just assume it's all "public as hell"

Aarrrgh

@Sam Wille: I can assure you that TwitPic is a totally independant service.

@mattattaxx: Thusly one could argue I own imageshack, as I have once used it :P

...I'll be taking my money now.

I guess these people have never heard of the Wayback Machine. I've found all kinds of old pictures this way.

[www.archive.org]

QADude

@ritchie82: Good point. "Don't do anything ever you wouldn't want you boss, mother, or local police chief to see." There. I said it.

Oh, and here's a thought: maybe "Choose your friends more carefully."

penguiniator

@mattattaxx:

"The best solution is to make this sort of networking more commonplace and acceptable, so it stops being a big deal if your lifestyle and corporate life doesn't match."

perfect +1

ritchie82

@Phoshi: it's still used for twitter, and still has photos of people on a specific social network.

This is why I'm not a member of any social networks. If you want to know anything about me, just visit my website.

@orlo: no eating at your desks, please.

@mikekearn: there are probably photos of you online you don't realize, but your ultra-resourceful future employers could find easily.

The best solution is to make this sort of networking more commonplace and acceptable, so it stops being a big deal if your lifestyle and corporate life doesn't match.

@mikekearn: I doubt your boss wants to see you doing anything other than working. So I guess we should all stay at our desks 24/7 with a plate of donuts and a picture of mom displayed on our desks.

orlo

I don't know when Art Technica noticed that, but this is a quite old news.

Me and a friend noticed that months ago and reported it to one of the biggest online magazines in Italy, not to mention to AllFacebook that merely ignored our tip.

By the way, as Lifehacker has a "slightly" bigger audience than any Italian magazine, at least now the world knows :)

@mikekearn:

All ur pics r belong to me.

I've followed all the advice given but what happens when someone holds a gun to my head and makes me pose lewdly and forces me to post them on my account? I tried a Nixon mask, but they made me take it off.

Really, and truly, I agree with you. Online images are a reflection of your off line life. Unless, of course, you're being hounded by tabloids. Speaking of which, I need to go get my Lindsay Lohan updates.

jupiterthunder

@Save me: You wouldn't have seen that with adblock plu... oh :(

Still, that's just wrong. I'm sure perfectly legal, thanks to the T&Cs, but still.

@Sam Wille: is an external service.

This reminds me of a time where a friend deleted his facebook account and days later one pic came out on an ad with the caption, "Do you want to lose weight?"

Yes I do know about Ad Block Plus, thank you very much

@SMSDHubbard: Twitpic?

Sam Wille

@Kellscloud: I'm not delusional towards as to what the chances are that someone will be able to find information about me using social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter. Just because you mark something as private doesn't mean that it is truly private, nor will the person that intercepts or gains access to this data will respect the notion.

If you want something to be truly private, don't load it onto the internet.

Sam Wille

@mikekearn: lol, I think thats a bit harsh...but its another argument all together, as theoretically you dont even have to be signed up to have pictures of you on there!

ritchie82

doesn't really bother me, if people want to have the pictures they'll just save as, not save the hyperlink. this really has no effect.

verticle

@ritchie82: Fine. Don't do anything ever you wouldn't want your boss, mother, or local police chief to see (where other people around you have a camera).

I still say it's entirely the person's own fault if reputation damaging pictures of them get out on the Internet.

But Twitter doesn't host any images. Only tweets. That part about Twitter makes no sense.

I still think it's interesting that people that have their profile set to private think there is nothing that people can see unless they're "friends." The only way to really make your account private is to block a user, but then the user can still follow you from someone else's account. Pictures have never been the issue for me, but I do have a problem putting my age, birth date, town, relationship status, and alma mater. I want to catch up with friends but don't want to put everything about me on my account.

How did they get mah picture?!

Matingmonkey is a proud eMac owner

@mikekearn: Umm... how does that stop other people posting pics with you in them? Which were "shock horror" taken on "their" camera....Soooo, your smart alec response should have been, "Dont do anything ever you wouldn't want your boss, mother, or local police chief to see".

Fact is myspace and facebook should delete the pics in real time!

ritchie82

Better solution: don't be retarded and post pics online you wouldn't want your boss, mother, or local police chief to see.