![]() Users could be motivated to delete a post so an employer wouldn’t see an embarrassing photo or post, especially since the percentage of employers viewing social media profiles of candidates is at an all-time high, according to a new CareerBuilder survey.Īlthough the site doesn’t sell user information, 70 percent of employers look through a candidate’s social media profiles, according to the CareerBuilder survey. ![]() “Instead, they just keep kind of extending it with new versions.” ![]() “In modern, big cloud infrastructures, they basically never delete anything,” said Ken Birman, a computer science professor at Cornell who does research on cloud computing. ![]() When a user deletes something, Facebook is able to ensure users will not see the deleted post, but that doesn’t mean Facebook destroys all traces of that post completely, or that Facebook cannot retrieve it. “If you post something and later decide you don’t want people to see it, you can delete it,” Facebook says in its Privacy Basics section of the site.īut once something’s “deleted,” what happens? Spartan Newsroom - News and information from student journalists at the Michigan State University School of Journalismįor social media users, there may come a time when they’d like to erase an embarrassing post, which sites like Facebook say is possible.
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