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Some time ago, I set my old tweets (3 months old) to be deleted automatically. Having this kind of ephemerality feels very peaceful.
by ulucs 6y ago
Some time ago, I set my old tweets (3 months old) to be deleted automatically. Having this kind of ephemerality feels very peaceful.
- teejmya 6y agoI would like to do this as well, is this a Twitter setting or a 3rd party solution?
- rektide 6y agoI absolutely hate this sort of thing. You've participated in dozens & dozens of conversations, had all sorts of interactions. And now when people go back to reflect, on their lives, on what happened, on conversations they had... they'll find a big black hole. A vanishing point where ulucs once was there but has deleted himself. It feels anti-civil to me, to put yourself in public, to participate in public activity, then to mask & cloak & hide all your activity after the fact. While platforms allow this, I think the civic world has an obligation to prevent you from doing this. If you want to be non-interactable on the medium after time, I'd be ok with that. We can make affordances. But burning all the books is a bad thing. You are too important, too interesting, your contact with the world too notable to let you continually incinerate your online self.