Digital Exhibition

This article was interesting for many reasons but what I found most interesting was the topic of digital exhibition really meant. Let me explain what I mean about that. Back before computers were invented and there was internet people used to write daily in journals and make books. They also  created photo albums, once the camera was invented for the public use, to document their lives manly for the family to be passed on for records. It ties in with what Annette Kuhn was mentioning in her article that it was kept as records and pictures were intentionally taken in consideration for the future family. But now that Facebook and Twitter and many other social networking sites have popped up we no longer write in journals we simple tweet or post about our day to day adventures. But these post on the social networking sites are public and no longer private whether or not you set it to. It has turned away from reflection and into the immediate emotion. The post are less personal and more generic or passive. What the article was getting at was the immediacy of everything on the internet. I find this very interesting because in todays world that's what we expect and get. We're loosing that connection of reflection, which I am a part of too. What we can take away from looking back at old portraits or diaries is a person connection with the person compared to a scratch at the surface of our "friends" on the social media sites. And what will happen to our personal biographies we "create" online? You can't store them like a diary or album. Will our history be erased with the simple click of a button?