How to Delete Facebook Photos
Facebook has become literally a virtual photo album for many people. Millions and millions of photos are uploaded 24/7 by millions of users around the world to the social networking site. The site's design allows you to make "albums" complete with album names, individual photo commenting, and of course the ability to "tag" yourself and others in the photos. Photos can also be added to specific pages on Facebook such as event pages, fan pages, and group pages.
Of course the "instant" ability to upload photos to Facebook through mobile devices such as smartphones means that sometimes photos you may have second thoughts about putting up are already online and getting seen by all your friends.
Fortunately if you were the person to upload the picture to Facebook you also have the power to remove the photo from Facebook.
Log into your account and click on the "Photos" link. Browse through your albums and photos until you find that photo that you want to delete from your account.
Click on "Delete This Photo" under the list of available actions under the photo. If a confirmation pops up, click "Delete" in the pop up to confirm the removal.
Once this is done the photo is instantly removed from your Facebook account and Facebook photo albums. Anyone "tagged" in the photo is untagged and the photo will no longer show up in their "tagged photos" on their own profiles.
Keep in mind that even if you delete a photo on Facebook that you uploaded yourself, Facebook's servers may maintain a copy of any information you've uploaded to the site. Also if your friends or family members downloaded the photo off of Facebook, or uploaded a copy of the photo on their own to their own albums, event images, or group images the photo will remain visible. While you can untag yourself in any photo you've been tagged in, the copy of the photo will remain unless the user who posted it or the admin of a event/group decides to remove it.
If you aren't sure you should post up a photo onto Facebook from the party you're at, chances are you shouldn't post it up at all. Deletion is possible but with Facebook's news feed, dozens if not hundreds of your friends can see the photo the second you upload it giving ample chance to tag it, copy it, or download it.
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Priscilla - I think that is a tricky area for law to get involved with. You can "untag" yourself in other's photos but technically the photo is the property of the person who took it initially. To put laws in place to prevent a photo with you in it appearing on Facebook you'd also have to regulate all cameras and photo taking. Many photos are taken in public venues, college parties, or just out in the world. It'd be hard to regulate and prevent people from taking photos with their cameras, smartphones, and digitial video cameras and uploading them to their Facebook .
thanks for the info!
I am still very new to Facebook. Thanks!