> you have to assume everything you put out on the internet never goes away
Only applies if you regret posting it later. If it's something you want to find later, it will inevitably have bit-rotted and not been archived.
Only applies if you regret posting it later. If it's something you want to find later, it will inevitably have bit-rotted and not been archived.
Not really. For example, something you posted on social media can easily get you turned down for a job you wanted. You'll never be told that your post is what caused you to lose the job, so you'll never "regret" having posted it, but your life was still negatively impacted by what you overshared. It doesn't even have to still be found online to have an impact on your life. It could be something scrapped once a long time ago by a data broker who used that data to flag your file in some way. Your info can still come up when people request targets matching whatever you were flagged for, even when the original content is no longer online. Even when the internet forgets, data brokers don't.