The Internet Never Forgets
If you know me at all, you know I teeter on the fence between wanting to share and wanting to hide—under a big BIG black cloak of privacy. I do want to blog. I want to voice my opinions. I want to spill my guts. I want to pour my heart out. I just don’t want anyone I know in real life to read it (blogging friends and a few select others notwithstanding).
This also extends to my kids. I honestly have no idea what I’m going to do when they get older and don’t have such limited computer access but the idea of them combing through my blog and reading certain things bothers me a lot. I’m all for honesty but really, there are just some things you’d rather not share with your kids until they’re older. Or maybe never. That said, I sometimes imagine that after a certain point, I will have to cull this blog back to a bloody nub by removing a lot of content. Oddly, that thought has never bothered me much.
But people always say stuff will stay on the internet forever, right? And maybe that’s true but it wasn’t until I found about The Wayback Machine (no, not like Mr. Peabody’s machine) that I really pondered the gravity of that statement. So I checked it out and holy crap on a cracker—there was my whole site archived by month and year. It was freaky. And creepy. I didn’t like it.
Have you ever visited The Wayback Machine? Chances are your site is archived there, too. If you’re cool with that and you want every word you’ve ever blogged to be accessible for generations to come, then you’re good. No action necessary. Carry on.
But if you’re not so sure, the ability to make it all go away DOES exist. The instructions are right here. Good luck!
I feel the same way. I WANT to blog, to write, but do I want my future children someday finding out about my blog and reading every word? Not so much. Thanks for the link, good to know.
~S
Susan (woo222)’s last blog post…Hands
I suppose it could change, but my blog? Doesn’t exist there.
I am on the verge of having to reveal my blog to certain people, I think. And I don’t like it one bit.
Jill’s last blog post…OK… enough of that…
well howdy do ill be darned
Uh, right. Holy crap on a cracker. Obviously, this is why I hop around the Internet starting and stopping blogs like a criminal on the run. Yikes.
Just last night my 8-yr old tells my 20-yr old stepdaughter, who I do not want reading my blog, “Mommy has a blog with a picture of a Scottish Barbie doll on it.” Let the digging and hunting begin!
I hope Bitsy Parker doesn’t have to die.. AGAIN.
Wow! Thanks for the tip!
Momish’s last blog post…This, That, Me, Him, Her & It
funny…. I’m well aware of Archive.org because of the “Live Music Archive” part, but didn’t know about the “Wayback Machine” part….. but I guess by responding here, I’m now part of that too….
kuba’s last blog post…Shelby recovering…..
Actually, my site has been removed so, as a commenter here, you’re not on there. You don’t have a blog, do you?
nah, no blogs…… I can be creative and mildly amusing for a sentence or two responding to something someone else says, but no way, no how, could I come up with stuff on my own and sustain an actual blog……. as Clint Eastwood says in “Magnum Force”, ” A man’s got to know his limitations”……..
kuba’s last blog post…Shelby recovering…..
WOW that is kinda creepy! I didn’t find myself but are you saying because i entered via your link that it just doesn’t show?
fiona’s last blog post…Saying Comfort Food Is Like Saying Comfort Crack
So…Is it a good thing or a bad thing that I’m not in there? Maybe good.
MiaHysteria’s last blog post…Yes, Man!