The internet will not remember you!

The title "The Internet Will not Remember You" immediately caught my eye: If the platform is truly a memory bank, why won't it remember me? The article uses the Russia-Ukraine war from February to April 2022 as an example: Under lockdown and censorship, people began to delete posts, migrate to other platforms, and tighten visibility, transforming the "daily flow" in the original timeline into a more controllable "personal profile". The author refers to this as "platform-based autobiographical memory", and this is by no means an abstract recollection, but rather photos, texts, folders related to oneself, as well as their naming, stratification, permissions and other carrier structures. My biggest impression after reading it is that the Internet is not about forgetting but selective memory. Platform rules, business goals and algorithms will determine what is seen, sunk or vanished. So, two questions became acute: Can my materials maintain the complete context? Will my privacy be leaked during the secondary circulation? I also understand why many people have started self-censorship, no longer frequently shared their daily lives, and give space to more "appropriate" public discussions. For me personally, I have always regarded the cloud as a container for my memoirs, but now it's more like "renting memory space": I regularly export, make local encrypted backups, store and retain time and location metadata in multiple places, and reduce the exposure of details on public platforms. Perhaps, the deleted blanks, version differences and misaligned timestamps themselves are the shapes of the "data ghosts" of this era.