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Facebook has long been criticized for a cavalier attitude toward privacy. If you haven't had a negative experience related to your Facebook photos, you most likely know someone who has. Often these experiences cause serious consequences for the person whose photo was uploaded. Not only does Facebook use convoluted language and legalese hidden in the terms of service, but users are also required to go through tedious and time-consuming processes in an attempt to safeguard or remove their content.

Facebook users upload more than 250 million photos every day, with a record-breaking 750 million photos uploaded over New Year’s weekend in 2010.

If you haven’t had a negative experience related to your Facebook photos, you most likely know someone who has. Often these experiences cause serious consequences for the person whose photo was uploaded. Take, for example, Ashley Payne, who lost her teaching job because of a Facebook photo that showed her drinking at a Guinness brewery while on vacation in Dublin.

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