ANATOLY IVANOV / PROSE / 2023-05-02

THE BLOCK FOREVER ARCHIVE

by Anatoly IVANOV

PSYCHOLOGY / SOCIAL MEDIA / SOCIETY / ESSAYS

Only thoughtless people do crazy things, publish emotional photos, record damming TikToks, break up “forever”… relying on the “Delete Chat” and “Block” buttons of messengers and social apps. Those unable to think ahead imagine they will never face the consequences.

Our digital footprint describes our past in astonishingly precise detail, sometimes from the weirdest sources like Tesla door cameras.

The archives that describe our silence and opinions, actions and omissions, failures and accomplishments — those are the ones that remain “forever”.

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