There aren't many great songs about dementia, but my favourite is BRITISH SEA POWER's "REMEMBER ME". The video takes a slightly different meaning of the title, looking at memorials asking an inattentive public to remember them.
I have heard it said many times that the internet remembers everything. This has led some to consider that users should have a right to be forgotten. I rediscovered my first ever personal website last week, and I'm glad that it's forgotten but mildly disturbed that it's forever available should one know where to look. (You'll never find it, honest.)
I'm musing a bit about twitter, seeing as how I'm seeing what happens when I disengage from it for 40 days (see last few posts). One score it has over other web services is it's ephemeral, throw-away, forgettable nature. It's hard work to get beyond the past few dozen posts someone has put up, so things fade into the hazy distance of the readers' memories. While blog post are normally arranged into searchable date folders, I don't know what I was tweeting about this time last year, nor do I really care.
Not that people haven't suffered for the one time they put things up that could be misinterpreted as threatening airports or the United States of America. But these are the exception to a medium that appears to forget you.
Feel free to tell me I'm wrong in the comments below, of course!
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