Friday, February 17, 2012
Hi this is Chris!!
The article that I have chosen to discuss is a blog written by Jacqui Cheng (Ars Technica) on February 7, 2012. The name of the blog is as follows: “Over 3 years later, "deleted" Facebook photos are still online”. The blog was posted on the CCN Tech website. This article discusses an issue that Facebook users are facing because pictures that they think are being deleted off Facebook are really not. These pictures are being placed in an archive and saved for a much long time than anticipated. Photos that have been deleted from the main frame are still reachable if the direct link of the picture is still known. According to Facebook they are trying to figure out a system for those photos to be deleted at a quicker pace but still till this day have been unsuccessful. This issue came to face in 2008 and the direct link to any of those photos deleted by any of its users it still able to be seen. When Facebook was confronted three years as to why the problem had not been fixed; they had no direct answer. It was more like a weak answer in my opinion stating that: "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". The spokesperson for Facebook Wolens also explained that, “photos remaining online are stuck in a legacy system that was apparently never operating properly, but said the company is working on a new system that will delete the photos in a mere month and a half. For really real this time”. He continues to state that they are working on the problem and hope to completely fix the issue within a couple of months. The original author of this blog explained that even though it might be difficult to understand that Facebook it actually really working on fixing the problem there is a great deal of trust that they actually really working on fixing the situation as quickly as possible and until then we will continue to hear the horror stories that are continuing to happen to Facebook users.
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Hello Chris I fell as if you give a good summery of the article you have read for this second blogger assignment. I personally was going to do this one as well for my post for this week’s blog. But I felt as if it would be better to comment upon this topic that you bravely chosen for your blog post for the week. The Facebook people use is a fully internet based company and this then leads to the resending action behind you not being able to truly delete photographs of you and others you are not so prod about to show to a future employer. This just leads to the fact that if you do not put out the photo in the first place you would not have to worry about deleting it later in life. I know its fun to take photos with beer and being dumb when your under aged but this leads to a hard time convincing your new boss that didn’t really happen or that does not happen all the time.
ReplyDeleteI like Chris’s post about Facebook and the pictures not being able to be deleted. This is still so startling to me when I first read it and blogged about it. I agree with Chris about how the creators of Facebook gave an awful response during the interview. This is a big deal to a lot of their users and for the creators to act like that is shocking. I bet if they started to lose their users they would find a faster way to fix it. They say they have been working on it but three years later and it is still the same, it goes to show was on their list of priorities. However, I would have to disagree with Chris about Facebook fixing their problem. If they really wanted to do something about it, they would have had a group of computer genius’s to fix as fast as possible.
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