The internet is a strange place. In a sense for data and informations, it is either there or it isn't there. Researchers found that photos uploaded to some social networking websites or photo sharing websites maybe there forever. While the option to delete them is there, somehow the data remains, for some cases. The reason is because several websites uses multiple servers to contain the data which would take some time for the purge. So that is good news in case something went down you won't lose your data. But now that you wanted the data gone that is a possible challenge. Some people might even duplicate your data to some other websites where you have no control. There are also caches from search engines so unlike your local data, If they are removed, there is a 10% you will see it again.
http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/142366

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Comment by KnOwMaN on May 26, 2009 at 6:23pm: Photobucket, or any other host regardless email or web, anything that can be displayed in some form on the monitor can be pass around easily through the net. That is why internet is named NET. Info can be passed through any direction. Your photobucket maybe private to everyone except your friend A. He might left a trail of that photo after viewed and this is how the 10% it might start something as long as the photo is in soft format and it passed through the internet to be viewed by someone. Nothing is private even though securities are in place. The human mind surpassed all if they ever want to.

Comment by fib12345 on May 26, 2009 at 3:49pm: Meh, I never was a Facebook/MySpace type. I usually upload my stuff to Photobucket, or Majhost or some stuff like that. And I sometimes hide things on my webhost and pick them up later.

Comment by Dave on May 26, 2009 at 12:32am: Never upload anything you wouldn't want your own mother to see!

Comment by KnOwMaN on May 25, 2009 at 6:14am: I don't think anyone would want to make an already complicated internet even more complicated. It would also be costly. It all boils down to the users. Anything you put on display on the net will be stuck there forever. If you want it privacy, do not upload or show anything at all.

Comment by zitiboat on May 25, 2009 at 5:47am: Goes to the completely ignored fact that you have some control within your own home, but if you choose to connect to a world wide web internet, you give up all control of any data to other people/companies that can copy, alter, and usurp whatever you allow to be seen.
I have always suggested that there should be a true Web2. Another internet for information and research not connected directly to our present commercial Internet. Maybe even a Web3 just for social interaction. Copy and paste anything that is of crossover value but allow government policing of the non-commercial information highway.

Comment by Milos on May 24, 2009 at 10:44pm: Except... When you accidentally delete something, you furiously search for a backup but it is never found. :(

Murphy's law, really.

Comment by Wandering I on May 24, 2009 at 2:11pm: Makes sense to me, just look at the internet archives. anything you post online you might as well just consider it there for good, because there is ALWAYS a backup in one way or another.

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