Update: A thrift store book's sealed 1995 letter has me in an ethical bind

Finding that unopened note makes me miss when privacy was simpler before everything went online.

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Yeah that hits hard lol. It's crazy how a physical letter could just stay hidden like that for decades, but now every dumb text or email we send is basically forever. Back then you could actually burn a diary or lose a note for good. Now it's all in some cloud server owned by a company, and nothing feels truly private anymore. It's like we traded that kind of simple, real control for convenience and it kinda sucks.

dakota7982mo ago

I read that Facebook keeps deleted messages in backup systems for up to 90 days just in case. A friend works in IT and said even emptying your trash folder doesn't fully erase data from company servers. Makes you wonder who actually has the keys to all our private thoughts now, doesn't it?

palmer.thomas2mo ago

My old MySpace rants are probably still out there too.