With the Internet, if you erase something it just means you have to spend another half-minute to find it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The idea that you can somehow erase the Internet is silly.
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.
Either you're the one erasing or you're the one being erased.
If we don't record our own history on the Net, it will disappear.
The world comes at me that way - comes at me in clumps of stuff, sometimes little vignettes and sometimes whole stories. And then the rest is erased by the internal filter that erases things for the same reason you'd forget swatting a mosquito.
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.
I always write in pencil, so I can erase.
We're now seeing email that people thought they had deleted showing up as evidence in court. You can't erase email. As that becomes more commonly realized, people will be a little wiser about what they type.
I can really waste a lot of time on the Internet.
With pencil, you can always erase.