The Web doesn’t forget
2010 July 24
A friend shared the article from the New York Times Magazine, The Web Means the End of Forgetting. The author, Jeffrey Rosen, discusses the problem of pictures or messages coming back to haunt us later in life. Whereas we have all had events occur in our lives that we don’t want to advertise, if we post them online in a “private” space, or if others post them online, they can become public. We know that when we post a picture on facebook, a tweet on Twitter, or a comment on a blog, we lose control of that content. It can be downloaded, reposted in other places and taken out of context. That is why it is so important to be very cognizant of what we post online.
