Digital Exhibitionism: the Digital Graveyard

I found the idea of the internet as a personal hyperlinked scrap book very interesting but some of the points Munar made were almost unsettling. With all the social media options we have available to us, people have the ability to keep an ongoing record of their lives in many different facets, whether it be personal or work related. But what will happen to all this information we are putting out there as we age? It is convenient now to be able to use facebook to recall a photo from last year's summer break; social media has redefined the linear nature of our lives, allowing us to quickly access memories we might have buried. But what will happen to all these records 20 years down the road? Will we simply keep building them larger and larger? It feels as though eventually we will reach a point where too much is too much- there simply is not enough time to constantly reflect on a scrap book that keeps growing bigger and bigger while at the same time trying to live real life in order to make MORE memories to add to that scrapbook. Personally, even though social media has its benefits, I feel that it has created a society of people who aren’t very present in the moment because they are too busy living in the digital past. There will come a time when the digital world is revolutionized once again, but what will become of our scrapbooks? The idea that Munar presented of a sort of digital graveyard is eerie but very possible.