On 4/25/06, Rob <gamaliel8(a)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