The End Of Forgetting Jeffrey Rosen Summary

You are at your best friend’s house, uploading and snapping pictures while effortlessly commenting on how great you both look to Facebook. As you are both having a good time, you are also drinking from a red cup which appears in a few of the pictures; you don’t give it a second thought but when you get into school the next day you realize that almost everyone in your class has seen the pictures and suddenly you are being pulled into the principal’s office. You bravely suggest that the beverage was only soda, your principal strictly believes otherwise so you are suspended from school and your parents punish you. Next time, wouldn’t you think before uploading to the internet? As Jeffrey Rosen states in “The End of Forgetting,” published in The New York Times Sunday Magazine, Jeffrey …show more content…
First, he informs us that in many situations throughout the world that anything you put on the internet in any way can be found and used against you by refusing a job offer, denying a purchase, or even blackmailing you in dome way, by using the information you uploaded to the internet. Rosen then states, “the Library of Congress recently announced that it will be acquiring—and permanently storing—the entire archive of public Twitter post since 2006” (595), reminding again that users should be more conscious about uploading personal thoughts, beliefs, and criticisms to the internet. Secondly, he believes that by reinventing yourself, via internet, is changing your current person situation; or that people recreate themselves online to hind that they may be only a poor person trying to change the criticisms of society, to make them look rich, or famous. Rosen also states that by being so careless with the internet, it “shackles us to everything we have ever said, or that anyone has said about us, making the digital self-reinvention seem like a ideal from a distant era” (597). Rosen also brings to