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But even if we button down every last digital reminder of the past in our social media networks, we will still come across a photo of the long-lived, dearly loved and departed pet, a piece of mail, or a forgotten item of clothing that will pull at our memories… that’s not something I think we as humans are capable of functioning without, as painful as it may be.

The blog I started when I was very sick – that captured the two worst and most tumultuous years of my life – is no longer online, and although I’m glad that in general it isn’t out there for friends and future employers to read, I do miss it occasionally. There was a certain wisdom that only comes through that sort of tumult that I sometimes wish I could go back to read the way you would read old journals: for just long enough to feel something, and not long enough to feel everything.

I remember most things, the ones I might like relief from remembering I remember all too well. So I guess I don’t have a problem with them being out there. The fact that they are unchanging is at least a comfort.

Within an organization that uses social tools, this is a huge problem. We generally do want to share files, photos, etc, but it is not the best way to be storing such information as it does not respect taxonomy, search, etc in the same way a more sophisiticated content management system would facilitate. Now take that to the personal life. Using social tools to be our predominant storage vs something like Dropbox, does have its danger like you pointed out. I think tools that mash up both, like Flickr, will have to make a more conscious choice on their strategy. Are they first and foremost a social tool, or a cloud service storage tool? I think that would dictate on how their product would grow and that distinction will also dictate our behaviour as users.

Does Apple know that?

You know what I think? Microsoft put a spy into the Apple OS X team and poisoned the system. And Steve didn’t see it coming because he was too busy with something else.

Again, thank you.