Comments on: Deleted Facebook pics still available after three years in some cases

By: Craig Herberg

Craig Herberg — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:22:00 +0000

That is disappointing, but not surprising, given their track record on privacy. If it were not for the economic value of information to them and their advertisers, it would be easy to delete our own information. Perhaps “delete” just means move from one data stream to another, i.e., like moving a quarter from your right pocket to your left pocket. . . Craig Herberg

By: R L S

R L S — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:59:00 +0000

I don’t think they’re deleted at all because when TIMELINE rolled out, every lame comment, like, reply, picture, EVERYTHING came back. Fortunately, I’m super private and boring so no harm done, but sheesh! It was still time conusuming deleting it all again.

By: Craig Herberg

Craig Herberg — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:13:00 +0000

As an experiment, I uploaded then deleted a few photos. When I tried the direct link, the following message was displayed: “This content is currently unavailable
The page you requested cannot be displayed right now. It may be temporarily unavailable. . .” Hopefully, the problem described above has been fixed, but given that things on Facebook seem to disappear and reappear regularly, one can only hope the fix is universal and permanent. Craig Herberg

By: Craig Herberg

Craig Herberg — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:13:00 +0000