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As a user I should be able to tell a website that I want it to forget something I'm putting on it after a while. Nothing complicated, say a default setting of one year. Not on sites like Posterous or Flickr, but on sites like Facebook, Twitter, even HN.

This isn't likely to happen though without legislation, which is a shame.

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Why not on Posterous or Flickr? Not everyone wants every post or photo to persist.

Or, more practically: if this were convention or law, why would Posterous or Flickr be exempt?

BTW I like this idea.

Deleting information posted publicly isn't practical. Your posts are likely to be archived in numerous places (e.g. google cache or archive.org).

True, but still ...

> Why not on Posterous or Flickr?

Sure, some people would want that. I'd use the setting on Facebook, maybe on Twitter too, but not on my Posterous.

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