Preserving social media
Social media is modern culture, but it’s very difficult to preserve. Social media platforms strongly resist being archived or preserved.
I spent two years working on this problem while at the Flickr Foundation, where I focused on preserving a single social media network.
This topic has my notes on preserving social media, including my current personal practice.
Meeting my younger self
I reviewed 150,000 fragments of my online life, and I was reminded of the friends I found, the mistakes I made, and the growth I gained.
Hard problems in social media archiving
Preserving social media is easier said than done. What makes it so difficult for institutions to back up the Internet?
The Internet forgets, but I don’t want to
I don’t trust platforms to preserve my memories, so I built my own scrapbook of social media.