Posted by zenhussy on July 25, 2010, at 1:05:33
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/25/magazine/25privacy-t2.html
Three things from the article that stood out:
...There are more than 100 million registered Twitter users, and the **Library of Congress recently announced that it will be acquiring and permanently storing the entire archive of public Twitter posts since 2006**....
...Its often said that we live in a permissive era, one with infinite second chances. But the truth is that for a great many people, the permanent memory bank of the Web increasingly means there are no second chances no opportunities to escape a scarlet letter in your digital past. Now the worst thing youve done is often the first thing everyone knows about you....
...Our character, ultimately, cant be judged by strangers on the basis of our Facebook or Google profiles; it can be judged by only those who know us and have time to evaluate our strengths and weaknesses, face to face and in context, with insight and understanding. In the meantime, as all of us stumble over the challenges of living in a world without forgetting, we need to learn new forms of empathy, new ways of defining ourselves without reference to what others say about us and new ways of forgiving one another for the digital trails that will follow us forever.
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