The Web Means the End of Forgetting

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18 points·ez77··6 comments

Its really dangerous these days. a personal experience: someone quoted something i said in the college newspaper without my permission and then i find out a month later. to make the matter worse, the college newspaper has a copy of every article written published on the internet.

even today, when i google my name, i still see that article pop up. im getting around to issuing them a legal notice but its annoying... be warned

I think everyone has realized this by now.

Realized what, exactly? The tagline, that the web means the end of forgetting, or some facet of the content linked?

We're figuring out that facebook is evil, we're figuring out that our employers don't like us having 'fun', we're realizing this, and that, and coming into the realization that this is not our parent's world, not even the world our education proposes to have prepared us for, to be, in many cases, preparing us for.

I think we're still realizing, all of us, in a very big way, that the world is suddenly less fuzzy. It is, as the article proposed, a brutal village.

> we're figuring out that our employers don't like us having 'fun'

No. They don't care whether you're having fun. They care about whether you're doing what they're paying you to do. They want to avoid anything that interferes with that.

> the realization that this is not our parent's world

Mostly it is. You do have smart phones to replace the snazzy digital watches that distinguished them from their parents.

that is called growing up.

is this an argument that the world hasn't changed since our grandparents were our age?

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