I think managing memories rhetorically comes naturally to all-as we are thinking beings. We all make the decision to manage particular memories by either keeping them in material form, digitally and or mentally. We all make the choice in which form we decide to keep them and how long we want to keep them for. Usually the memories we decide to keep- no matter where they are stored- tend to be correlated to the intensity of the feeling of the event. As time passes, the intensity of that feeling may decrease and that’s when we update our stored memories. It’s interesting to find that photographs and digital forms tend to linger longer until we come across them and if the felling is not intense anymore we discard them and or alter them.
I think having expiration dates on information on the web can be a disadvantage to our society as a whole because the purpose is to have this information accessible to us at all times either to learn from or use for the purpose of creation of new things. Having expiration dates on articles, images, digital information etc. will reduce the exponential growth of creation of new information.
This far, what I tend to delete from the web are blog posts that I created for the purpose of school. These blogs posts, I created were forced; not necessarily passionate about therefore making them not the most fun to read and feel like they do not reflect anything about me. The things that I do decide to keep tend to be interests of mine and intentionally leave them for other to use in the future.
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