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2016-12-25 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Facebook is a growing unstoppable digital graveyard

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Posted by Besoeker 2016-12-25 06:43|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Memories are not so much simply called back, but are actually re-created by our minds every time we remember.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2016-12-25 10:20|| 2016-12-25 10:20|| Front Page Top

#2 Over thirty million dead Facebook users already? What will happen to their accounts when FB finally goes belly up? The information in the accounts is the property of Facebook, not of the users, so the accounts of the living will be a saleable asset, but those of the not recently deceased would only be of interest to a few statisticians and historians, and a few of the friends and relations. The rest will remember their loved ones without the aid of the internet, as people have always done.

I read a science fiction story a while back about a college computer class being given the task to purge the computer files of the dead. Each student was to go through their list, glean what was important from each file, and report back what they had discovered. The story, written before Facebook was a thing, was set several hundred years in the future.

Posted by trailing wife 2016-12-25 13:10|| 2016-12-25 13:10|| Front Page Top

#3 Memories are not so much simply called back, but are actually re-created by our minds every time we remember.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418

Thanks AH. I knew there was a logical basis for my chronic spinning and embellishment.

Posted by Besoeker 2016-12-25 15:03|| 2016-12-25 15:03|| Front Page Top

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