When historians of the future look back on the perils of the early digital age, Stacy Snyder may well be an icon. The problem she faced is only one example of a challenge that, in big and small ways, is confronting millions of people around the globe: how best to live our lives in a world where the Internet records everything and forgets nothing — where every online photo, status update, Twitter post and blog entry by and about us can be stored forever.
via The Web Means the End of Forgetting – NYTimes.com.
This has implications for missionaries, too. Our many posts today can come back to cause difficulties for us when, some day in the future, there may come a time when we want to go as missionaries to a restricted-access culture. We as parents need to teach our children not just to watch our words (a Biblical value) but to live as Christ-followers at all times: because we are, more and more, at all times being watched. Or at least recorded.
