In Jeffrey Rosen’s article “The Web Means the End of Forgetting” he discusses the inerasable memory of the web. The article introduces a woman who was a victim of how the internet can harm a person’s image. The internet is an on-going, live record of every little thing we do, say, and think. We may think we have deleted something of our facebook, twitter, or blog page but some other person may have already saved that little piece of information we are trying to forget forever. That is the problem with many social outlets. Unless we limit the access of our information to the public then anyone can use the information we put our there to do some kind of harm, whether it be personal or business related. We may think that the information we share on the internet is innocent or fun and can’t really be taken in a negative way. But what one person may perceive as positive another may interpret as negative and offensive.
Then again, we are also responsible for the information we choose to share on the internet. If we think for a second that anything we post or discuss on the internet can’t come to bite us in the butt, then we are all sadly mistaken. A person cannot act as a victim or cry for help when something on the internet is linked to them. One needs to take ownership for any content they share on the internet, good or bad.
