Social Media Content Should Expire?
Summary
All content on social media should expire," a straphanger tells Kareem, launching into a vision of the internet that's fundamentally impermanent. Nothing should stick around forever. The default should be deletion, not preservation. If you really want to keep something, print it out and stick it in a photo album. Better yet, there should be an annual book of your life on social media, a collection you can actually hold. The rider extends this thinking to friend requests too. Why should adding someone mean you're connected for life until you manually unfollow? Let connections expire naturally when you stop talking to someone. They fade from your feed. You drift apart. Oops.
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All content on social media should expire. 100% agree. Nothing should be permanent. Nothing should be. The whole social media internet is like default permanent in public is so toxic. We should all delete our old content. Why are we saving this stuff? Print it out if you want to keep it in a photo album. There should be an annual book of your life on social media and you just have a collection.
And also friend requests? If someone adds me, I don't want to be connected with you for the rest of my life until I manually unfollow. This is why you need to expire where it naturally. You kind of stopped talking to that person months ago, suddenly they're out of the feed. You don't follow them anymore. Oops.
So what's take?