Are deleted Facebook and Instagram really deleted from the system ?

[that girl]

last year ived posted some pictures of myself smoking weed and like bikini picture kinda stuff.
and I deleted them all.
I was wondering if in the future maybe like 2 years from now, would they still be in the system, if I deleted the all or even deactivate my account?
will they be able to recover it?

just concerned, thanks
for example when I go apply a job or something

[Kjerianne]

Honestly, even after pictures are deleted they never really are gone, they'll always be in the system but with luck nobody else will ever see them again. Deleting the account really will do no good. I'm sorry to say whenever something is posted on the internet it may never really be gone, no matter what you do...