On 4/25/06, Rob gamaliel8@gmail.com wrote:
Too bad you couldn't go back in time to give that particular advice to myself as a college freshman.
I think the "Infinite Archive" effect will affect three main classes of people the most:
1. People with very distinctive names (people with names like "John Smith" have little to worry about, since Google is flooded with entries on them). 2. People who get interested in the internet at an age where they don't care about or realize the consequences of having tons of public records about them sitting out in the open (difficult to retract most of them), or didn't realize that Usenet and Yahoo Groups and other such services kept archives which are then googleable. 3. People who have/had strong interests in anything who also fall into one of the above groups.
I personally meet all three of the above characteristics, much to my present annoyance.
FF