Deleted a shit ton of original art

Yeah...I had a little conversation with my friend today about the interwebs and art stealing and junk like that. I was never comfortable with posting my original characters and stories on the internet and never really will be. I don't mind posting fan characters from series and stuff like that but my PURELY original content? Just no. I don't like it and I'm finally taking care of it. I don't mind posting fanart so much because if people wanna pass that around it doesn't bother me (depending on the situation, like tracing it or claiming it's theirs). But if I ever saw it happen to original art I couldn't blame anyone but myself because...it IS the internet here guys. We all are taking that risk posting our stuff, I'm just choosing not to post it.