Facebook.com is a social media website designed to make
connecting with family members, friends, and colleagues that much easier. Mark
Zuckerberg, the creator of Facebook, engineered the site from a small dorm in
Massachusetts. Like wildfire as the word of the website spread users of the
social media site grew exponentially. With each user came a multitude of pictures,
the article that I read was about Facebook's low efficiency terms of deleting
the pictures in a timely manner. As users began to become more and more
involved with the website, the number of pictures expanded as well. Problems
arose when users of the website intended to delete the pictures that they had
willingly uploaded, the main complaint was the Facebook did not execute the
task as hand as quickly or as efficiently as possible. If a user of the social
media site has a direct link to the photo, which is saved on Facebook’s central
server, that user could in turn use the image years after the initial up loader
“deleted” the photograph. The CNN study show that cases from as early as 2008
remain problematic as the pictures are still accessible up to 4 years later in
2012. Upon major unrest among Facebook users the company has released this
statement "We have been working hard to move our photo storage to newer
systems which do ensure photos are fully deleted within 45 days of the removal
request being received." This can be an issue that leads to major
financial problems in the form law suits for any Facebook profile holder who
faces repercussions themselves. In the reading the article gave multiple
examples of scenarios that would be unfavorable for the Facebook user that was
incapable of fully deleting the photo that they no longer wanted people to see.
What I am unclear about though is the fact that this is could pose a major
threat to the safety and well-being of many Facebook users. For example, if
someone posts a picture without my permission and I tell them to take it off
and it appears that they deliberately didn't if I did physical harm to them
could the "up loader" then sure Facebook?
That is a problem that Facebook needs to handle immediately. If there was an embarrassing photo of myself on Facebook I would want it taken down as soon as possible. I would not want the picture to reappear or still be up on Facebook for all to see for a lengthy amount of time. Another example could be if people post inappropriate pictures and others don't want to see these pictures then Facebook should be able to remove them right away. I wouldn't want kids to be walking by and glance over and see these pictures. Facebook should dispose of these pictures immediately and not days later. In the article you say that Facebook addresses the issue by saying that by the time the request to delete a photo is received it will be removed within forty-five days. That amount of time seems ridiculous to me, they should definitely be able to remove the photos a lot sooner than what they state.
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