It would be better for everyone if we deleted everything by default and saved the things that are important to us.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Every time a bit of information is erased, we know it doesn't disappear. It goes out into the environment. It may be horribly scrambled and confused, but it never really gets lost. It's just converted into a different form.
Most of us still haven't grasped the fact that everything we commit to the digital space - not just our public blogs and broadcast tweets, but every private text message, email, and voicemail is likely to be stored and accessible. Forever.
We want to bring people back to normal human social relationships. Your digital stuff can be there, but it doesn't have to take over your whole world.
If we don't record our own history on the Net, it will disappear.
We need to open up the future. We also need to keep everything valuable from the past.
If everything is very important, then nothing is important.
Not everything needs to be recycled.
We're all creating an archive of our own lives, whether we're aware of it or not.
As much as we can, we want to prevent people from having to think about how to keep and share their stuff.
It's so cheap to store all data. It's cheaper to keep it than to delete it. And that means people will change their behavior because they know anything they say online can be used against them in the future.