ExtraCredit Blog #11

There are a few different ways in which I manage a memory online. The first way is that I am very particular about what pictures are placed online. I analyze how they portray me as a person and what they say about my character. I limit the amount of social networking sites that I am on and what friends that I add within those sites. When interacting on the social networking sites, I am always aware of how other people will view my profile. I think it is very important for the user to try and keep their profiles, within social networking site, private. Though a profile is never totally private, the privacy aspects offered by some sites are good at the filtration of those who can and can’t view your page based on your settings.

I believe that the expiration date is good idea. There is so much information within the web that is out of date. This especially applies in some out of date scientific information. Though this is important to see the development of ideas and how information has evolved. It takes up space online and can be misleading for the reader. Like Vitkor Mayer-Schonberger said, in the book Delete., “Expiration dates are designed primarily to address the “time” dimension of digital memories and to limit the amount of irreverent information stored” (198).  Also, though people change, the internet remembers. People’s ideas about life are constantly changing. Since the internet remembers everything, this can be detrimental for the person if he or she is now bound by what was said a few years ago.

There are many different aspects of information displayed on the internet that reflect views that I once held but, that do not reflect my personality or beliefs now. I am in some YouTube videos playing my guitar with a metal band that is known to be a group of drunks and drug addicts. Clearly, I don’t want my parents to view this. Though that incident is bad, I wish I could delete the memories associated with my face book. Shortly after creating my face book page, I did not like the how I was portrayed when I was tagged within a picture. Some of the environments, I was in, were questionable and I did not want others to view me in that way. Also, my face book was hacked. I have no idea how, but whoever hacked my account advertised a site that allowed for the purchase of a drink that would make the user pass a drug test if he or she had taken marijuana. I tried to totally eliminate this memory, by deleting my face book. Though my face book was gone, the add was on every one of my friend's walls. It was very embarrassing for me.

 

Work Cited

Mayer-Schonberger, V. Delete.. 2009. 168-194. Print.