A Teen Speaks: The Internet Lacks a Delete Button
There are some things that just shouldn’t be shared online. Surely love is something too personal to be posted alongside ‘Bad Luck Brian’ posts and Taylor Swift goat videos. Austin Carr’s interview on May 6 with Google’s Eric Schmidt brings up an interesting point: the Internet lacks a delete button. Data is constantly being collected about us online and, should we continue to use the Internet, there’s not much we can do about it. I believe that this only reinforces my belief that we should all be extremely cautious about the things we post on the net.
Today, a status from 2009 came up in my news feed. It was from a friend about his day snowboarding, followed by 101 comments. Many of these comments contained messages like “I know you love me a fair bit cutie” and “I think you’re the cutie” (sickening, I know). The thing with this banter, apart from the fact that it would make many of us queasy, was that it occurred between my friend and his ex-girlfriend, whose relationship ended messily to say the least.
This was nearly four years ago.
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