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Summary Of Jeffrey Rosen The Web Means The End Of Forgetting
September 3, 2010
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In the New York Times article, “The Web Means the End of Forgetting,” author Jeffrey Rosen recounts that the modern day Internet is nothing short of a permanent record of everything you and anyone else has ever posted. Unlike real life where many people forget what happens in their lives or in the world over time, the Internet serves as a way to keep up with everything that has ever been made public; there are no deletions therefore there are never any forgets. The author uses many examples of people whose dreams are ruined by the simple and overlooked things they post on the internet. One case in point that is used in the article is of a soon-to-be graduate of college who planned on becoming a teacher. She was not only fired by the school where she was doing her teaching training, but was also not allowed to graduate or receive her teaching degree from her college due to a picture she posted of herself holding a plastic cup. The caption she used for the picture implied that she was intoxicated, which was completely legal for her due to the fact that she was over the legal drinking age of 21. The dean of the university she attended and was enrolled in stated that the photo encouraged the students she worked with
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Studies and surveys show that Facebook, the biggest social-networking website, has over 500 million members. Those 500 million people, surprisingly, only make up 22 percent of all internet users. More than 25 billion public posts are made each month on the Facebook community by its users, which is made up of photos, videos, status updates, blogs, and news stories. Another social-networking site that has recently become quite popular is called Twitter and has over 100 million users. The Library of Congress announced recently that all of the archive made public on Twitter will be obtained and permanently recorded for their use if it is ever

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