Friday Tip

Dear Constant Reader, It’s Friday again! I hope all has been going well for you! Here’s your tip… Things on the Internet are forever, until they’re not. This tip is really two. First, anything you put on-line never really goes away. Thus think before you put something out there, especially if you’re feeling some particularly strong emotions. Things said in haste can often lead to regret and then even if you delete it later, it may have been captured by a computer or a person and show up again to make your life heck. That said, links rot — websites go away, URLs change, and things you’ve shared up and vanish. FB is particularly terrible this way. In the early days of this correspondence, I was lazy and often embedded photos here by using their FB URL instead of putting them in the on-line photo album that I controlled. Many of those photos have since disappeared, even when I was the one who posted them in the first place, because FB changed the location on their end. Now I have the…

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