and you thought you had deleted that embarassing photo

Interesting new study out of Cambridge on social networking sites and what happens when users try to delete their own photographs.

The researchers posted photographs on 16 popular websites and noted the web addresses where the images were stored, before deleting them.

But researchers said that although the images appeared to have gone, they were still able to find them 30 days later on seven sites, including Facebook, by using the direct web addresses.

Special photo-sharing sites, such as Flickr an