I just watched one of the TED Talks from the module readings - Adam Ostrow: After Your Final Status Update.
What an interesting look at this generation and the vast amount of data that is created in one's lifetime, including facebook posts and content, tweets, blogs and videos. This generation is producing an archive of their life in a way that no generation has previously.
This concept had me thinking about the content I produce on facebook and question, would I be proud of my social media personality that will be viewed by my children??? It brings home that what is put online via social networking will remain out there. Very different indeed to the handwritten diary hidden in a drawer, where pages can be ripped out and torn into a thousand pieces or burnt by a candle.
Adam Ostrow also raised the concept of what happens when we are no longer alive to generate such content? He presented some ways in which technology can allow us to further generate content by predicting what we may tweet based on previously tweeted tweets. Very interesting indeed.
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