Facebook

The article I chose is called “Over 3 Years later, “deleted” Facebook photos are still online.” It was written by Jacqui Cheng very recently, as it was published on February 7^th 2012. This article is about some pictures on Facebook that were uploaded by users, and deleted sometime after they were uploaded. But the problem that occurred is that some pictures were never completely deleted and they were still left on the website. This may have caused a lot of trouble because people put pictures on Facebook that were taken at parties where they may appear under the influence in those pictures. People regret putting some pictures on Facebook, and would be much happier if they were to be completely taken down. Those pictures may be viewed by potential jobs and bosses, which may have an impact on the decision of the company from hiring them. This problem is rather serious, as each day thousands of people create a Facebook profile, and millions of photos are uploaded each day. These photos have been resurfacing over the years, which angers users. The author uses an example in the article, saying “One reader linked me to a photo that a friend of his had posted of his toddler crawling naked on the lawn. He asked his friend to take it down for obvious reasons, and so the friend did -- in May of 2008. As of this writing in 2012, I have personally confirmed that the photo is still online, as are several others that readers linked me to that were deleted at various points in 2009 and 2010.” Facebook is infamously known for changing their layout multiple times, and they usually are not helpful and it just makes things a lot more difficult to do on the website. I think that Facebook should not spend the useless time that they do trying to update their website, and just spend that time trying to find a resolution to this problem. It is ridiculous that a website that has made billions of dollars cannot figure out how to do such a simple task.