Question

Once something is deleted form a social media profile, is it ever truly gone and do our personal ethics change with the anonymities we use online?

Answer 1

In theory, social media promises to connect with the world. In practice, it compromises our personal privacy, puts our data at risk of online abuse, and makes us unsatisfied and unhappy with our real life. When we upload something to the internet it's saved in a number of places, like our device, our ISP, the site storage, could even be saved in the form of screenshots or copy pastes like a quote. When we delete a file, it isn't really erased it continues existing on our hard drive, even after we empty it from the Recycle Bin. This allows the people to recover files which have deleted.

There are a few methods to help to avoid social media for limited periods of time. When we're ready to say goodbye for good, it's time to delete those social apps from our phone and shut down our accounts entirely. Here's how to do it, one network at a time. If we’re not careful, this will also allow other people to recover our confidential files, even if we think we’ve deleted them. This is a particularly important concern when we’re disposing of a computer or hard drive.

Before we start erasing all of our content, we might want to download some or all of it. Next, make sure we're deleting our account for the right reason. If we're ready to bid farewell to the whirlwind of social media, that's fine. But if we're only closing down our current social media account so we can create a new one for a fresh start, hit pause. Our first step should be to check the do-over options the network gives. On Instagram, for instance, we can change our username without shutting down our existing account. Once we've exhausted the existing options, we can move on to deactivating or deleting our account.

Operating system keep track of where files are on a hard drive through “pointers.” Each file and folder on our hard disk has a pointer that tells operating system where the file’s data begins and ends. When we delete a file, OS removes the pointer and marks the sectors containing the file’s data as available. From the file system’s point of view, the file is no longer present on our hard drive and the sectors containing its data are considered free space.OS actually writes new data over the sectors containing the contents of the file, the file is still recoverable. A file recovery program can scan a hard drive for these deleted files and restore them. If the file has been partially overwritten, the file recovery program can only recover part of the data. Deleting a file’s pointer and marking its space as available is an extremely fast operation. In contrast, actually erasing a file by overwriting its data takes significantly longer. To increase performance and save time, OS don’t erase a file’s contents when it’s deleted. If we want to erase a file’s contents when it’s deleted, we can use a “file-shredding” tool .In case we have confidential, private data on our computer, such as financial documents and other sensitive pieces of information, we may be worried that someone could recover our deleted files. If we’re selling or otherwise disposing of a computer or hard drive, we should exercise caution so that the data should not reach on other hands.

We can use a utility that automatically wipes our hard drive’s free space, by writing other data over the free space on our hard drive or all deleted files will be erased or cleaned by some tools