Gigi Gorgeous Quotes

When you die, nobody pays your hosting company, and your work disappears. Like that.

With our blogs and tweets, digital cameras, and unlimited-gigabyte e-mail archives, participation in the online culture now means creating a trail of always present, ever searchable, unforgetting external memories that only grows as one ages.

Most of us still haven't grasped the fact that everything we commit to the digital space - not just our public blogs and broadcast tweets, but every private text message, email, and voicemail is likely to be stored and accessible. Forever.

Snapchat changed that perception of deleting something as bad. Online, typically you delete something if it's bad or if it's really embarrassing.

Digital media are biased toward replication and storage. Our digital photos practically upload and post themselves on Facebook, and our most deleted e-mails tend to resurface when we least expect it. Yes, everything you do in the digital realm may as well be broadcast on prime-time television and chiseled on the side of the Parthenon.

I'm a person who always wanted to turn my life into an archive. Social media made my dream come true.

TheIinternet is a timeless void - you put something in there, and it's there forever and loses a lot of context.

Your next SMS will probably be around longer, and remain more legible, than your tombstone. For, unlike your tombstone or even your mortal coil, your texts may be worth something.

People want chat histories. They're a permanent testimony of a relationship.

If you put something online, it's essentially there forever. You don't know who's kept it, who's screenshotted it.

As digital culture becomes more tied to the success of the platforms where it flourishes, there is always a risk of it disappearing forever.

Media cycles end, but the Internet never forgets. This is a valuable lesson, especially for college students.

Wikipedians believe (and I do, too) that bits, being abstract, will outlast paper.

The idea that you can somehow erase the Internet is silly.

You know, when I first started making online videos, there were a lot of filmmakers I befriended who were doing it too.

I definitely have aspirations outside of YouTube, but I think there's a lot of people on YouTube who want to leave YouTube. I don't want to leave; I love it.

People set newspapers on fire; they use them for wrapping fish. The Internet does not have that property. What I don't think we've gotten is that you can make things last longer than in print.

We're all creating an archive of our own lives, whether we're aware of it or not.

I ain't gonna work on YouTube's farm no more.

What gets posted online is not short term, and is open for easy misinterpretation. Messages and pictures spread faster through the Internet than they ever could by word of mouth.

It seems odd that at the beginning of the Internet, everyone decided everything should stick around forever.

People should think about e-mail as something where they are archiving their lives.

If we don't record our own history on the Net, it will disappear.

Gone are the days when your indiscretions at university were recorded in a roneoed college newsletter of which there is only one copy left tucked in a filing cabinet at the back of a library. Today that same college newsletter is online, accessible by the whole world now and forever.

There is no casting director; there is no producer monitoring your upload button. Anyone that looks like anyone can upload a video. I think YouTube and the digital space does set a really good example for the rest of the industry in that sense.