Searching thoughts
19 October 2004. Inspired by .
This is not a huge surprise but is also a reminder: the internet archives everything, including frivolity. Others, be they employers, friends, family or law enforcers, will use this some day.
Which may not always be a good thing - my teenage years are in boxes in the attic for a reason. Thank goodness LiveJournal wasn't around then.
The result? Google ranking, like memory, is something over which we mere mortals have no control. And it could inadvertantly turn you into Dorian Grey in the minds of anyone looking for information on you in the future. You are what you're googled, and in the order it arrives.
Which means that chronolgy is no longer the ordering system for the people. It has been surpassed by "priority".
(not quite sure where this is all going, but in the spirit of the last post, I thought I'd jot it down)