1. A method for social interaction data preservation for augmented photos, the method comprising: posting an image to a social media site; receiving textual commentary for the posted image from a multiplicity of users of the social media site and displaying the textual commentary of the multiplicity of the users in connection with the posted image as a thread of responsive postings; selecting the image for replacement; replacing the selected image in the social media site with a new image; determining whether or not the new image is similar to the selected image; and, preserving the thread of responsive postings for the selected image in the social media site and associating the preserved thread with the new image in the social media site based on determining that the new image is similar to the selected image, but otherwise discarding the thread of responsive postings.