Millennials were raised to fear the internet’s permanence, which evolved into a kind of truism after Facebook: think before you share, or forty years from now we’ll all be talking about those drunk photos at your Supreme Court hearing. Our assumption was that every piece of information online was immortal, and freely accessible by everyone. Which was awesome, actually. Embarrassment was simply the price that we would have to pay for the greatest invention in human history: a decentralized, democratized, liberated Library of Alexandria at our fingertips — forever. Well, turns out we were wrong about pretty much everything.
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