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I, for one, am happy to see all my old AIM conversations deleted and lost forever.
by kodt 9y ago
I, for one, am happy to see all my old AIM conversations deleted and lost forever.
- klez 9y agoOk, but that should be your choice, not AOL's.
- ct0 9y agoIt is your choice to save it locally. They are just saying that their copy will be deleted.
- shakna 9y ago> Unfortunately you are not able to save or export your Buddy List.
- castis 9y agoDid they ever say that information they store on their servers is solely owned by the user that generated said information?
- delinka 9y agoIn the US, copyright law says you own what you create. What AOL's TOS must do is provide you with terms under which you license your stuff to AOL. Nowhere in the law does it say they have to give you a way to export the creations that you put into their system.
- weoiurweoiu23 9y agoIt was the users choice to abide by the user agreement? I don't get how any reasonable framework can exist to say such detailed efforts at curating my identity must be pushed upon others? You want a lifelong log of your discourse? Write it in a medium you control. This is some hyper-active nationalist zeitgeist? You are not owed a say in any and every facet of life that touches you incidentally. It's never been the case "on the ground" in America.
- jasonkostempski 9y agoI would have preferred AOL not have the ability to even read it, let alone store it.
- Karunamon 9y agoIsn’t IM considered ephemeral anyways? Email is a different story...
- busterarm 9y agoHoly shit, emphatically this, yes. Especially the conversations with exes.
- fragsworth 9y agoI didn't even consider that. All those shitty things I said when I was a teenager...
- drdeadringer 9y agoI am again reminded that "youngsters these days" pretty much no longer have this option unless their online footprint is actively managed from Day One. A part of me can't wait to see the President whose entire life can be cherry-picked from various servers and datacenters.
- zjaffee 9y agoThis isn't necessarily true, snapchat deletes all of the physical messages sent within 30 days.
- Xeoncross 9y agoSnapchat is only one of several organizations who get a copy of the messages.
- zjaffee 9y agoSure, but the point is that they aren't retained, and in turn, leave young people in a position where they won't be blackmailed as adults for the shitty things they said as a teenager on platforms they thought were safe.
- stevenj 9y agoSame with Zuck.
- cjsuk 9y agoYes. Thousands of ASL's are gone forever.
- nasredin 9y agoHold on, hold on, let me put on my robe and wizard hat!
- nasredin 9y agoRoy Moore? Sorry, couldn't resist ;)