"How do I delete my Facebook photos?" is a common question I hear.

"You don't," is the correct answer.

True, Facebook maintains that you can permanently delete photos. Here are the company's instructions on how to perform the ritual of killing, if not the literal killing itself.

The ritual might give you the fleeting satisfaction of feeling that you've cleaned up the visual panoply spawned by your more unprofessional and/or debauched history.

But as Ars Technica's Jacqui Cheng reports , there are no guarantees in Facebook Land.

Some 2.5 years after Ars Technica first brought the issue up in 2009, Facebook has admitted that it's still working on deleting photos from legacy servers in a timely manner.

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Source: nakedsecurity.sophs.com -  by Lisa Vaas on February 8, 2012