Evan Spiegel Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sadly, it seems as if there is no longer any real history. Just momentary reactions to events that disappear like sky-writing with items like Twitter, texts, Meerkat, Snapchat, and Instagram.

Of course, authors can still burn their manuscripts - but once something is out in the world, especially if it ever saw the digital light of day, it's harder and harder to call it back.

I love documenting. Having these videos forever is priceless to me, so I think I will be doing it forever, but who knows if YouTube is gonna be around forever.

Social media might one day offer a dazzling, and even overwhelming, array of source material for historians.

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

Instagram is amazing, and I enjoy sharing photos there. However, I don't think it is where my photos will go to live.

Just remember when you post something, the computers remember forever.

So we should preserve it. I don't think that digital storage is necessarily a good thing, but I definitely think that digital manipulation is interesting.

There's a lot of things lost in the Digital Age.

Kids need to remember that when you put something on Twitter, it's not like whispering to your friend, you've put it on a billboard that the whole world, including your own kids someday, can see.

While the creative works from the 16th century can still be accessed and used by others, the data in some software programs from the 1990s is already inaccessible.

Recording - once something's done, it's done, there's not much you can do about it. It's out there and you just have to pray to the gods.