Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Attention Twits-Big Brother is Watching

I have just read that the Library of Congress is going to digitally archive every single tweet ever tweeted since Twitter began in March 2006. Every silly thing you've ever written is going to be on file forever. There's no Winston Smith to dispose of it down the memory hole. You have been robbed of your privacy and exposed to the lowest common denominator of your thinking. Did I mention that this is forever? A billion tweets in 18 months stored in an infrastructure that never forgets. You are now part of the mental spam that passes for intelligent communication. What a legacy you are leaving. It's an endless record that will haunt you to eternity. As the article states in closing: "George Orwell would freak out if he saw this". Of course he already has. Read "1984" again.

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