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This is a problem with almost any online 'space' - everything sticks around forever. You can go left from anyone's Facebook profile picture and see probably the
by fredley 8y ago
This is a problem with almost any online 'space' - everything sticks around forever. You can go left from anyone's Facebook profile picture and see probably the first picture they uploaded to Facebook. Snapchat's USP was that it didn't (not publically) keep stuff around.
I think there's a happy middle ground somewhere were I can set an expiration time on anything I post to such a platform (e.g. Facebook/Twitter) so that it goes private after that time - e.g. a year. It wouldn't even harm the bottom line, since all the money is in new content, and I'd still have a private archive of photos if I ever wanted to download them again.
All this is moot for me since I don't use services like this at all, but I think there's an opportunity for a company to get this right.
- sct202 8y agoDefinitely is an opportunity I hope that they pursue. Looking back at my first private messages on the platform like 10+ years ago is just full of cringe.
- TeMPOraL 8y agoSo is reading your own journal. And yet people write them. Despite privacy issues, I still think that things sticking around "forever" on the Internet is a good default. Link rot is already a huge problem when you're trying to reference something you read in the past, and that's without auto-expiry.
- jakear 8y agoBut people don’t tend to publish their life’s journals to every random person who recognizes their name in a list of “would you like to friend request X?”
- dhimes 8y agomewe has this as an option on some of its stuff- disappearing posts.