Digiexpiration

(Discount concert tickets, 2010)

    I think the most common way I rhetorically manage memories is by making the choice to take a picture or to not take a picture. This also goes even further if I decide to delete the picture at a later time, keep the picture to myself, or share it with other people. By choosing to share a picture I choose to share the memory; I can show the picture to someone that was not present during the event but because they saw the picture or pictures they now have a memory of what I thought was important. Now if I were to add and expiration date to the picture so after a certain amount of time it would cease to exist is that me saying that after this certain amount of time it is not important anymore or that someone should no longer remember it? I don't know I think that there are benefits to expiration dates especially when it comes to personal information gathered by corporations and government agencies. The longer they have this information the more likely it is to be used in a way that it was not intended to be used. Then again I also find it convenient for corporations to keep information in their data base; for example I regular use Target's data base when I return or exchange items because I know if I use any form of payment with the exception of cash or a gift card they can look up my transaction so I do not have to worry about keeping track of a receipt. This data base dose have an expiration period of around a year I believe this time period seems to be appropriate because most items you cannot return after that long. If I had to choose information to have deleted or expired it would probably be pictures that have made their way onto social networking sites. I can't control what other people put on their pages. So I do not always agree with the pictures people display and I can't stop a picture from being tagged onto my page before it is made public. I can always take it down once it is up but by then the memory has been made by people that have seen it, at least for as long as they can remember it. Overall though, I think that while I may not like the pictures now, when I am older I will look back on them and laugh, but who knows.

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Discount concert tickets, . (Designer). (2010). expired.gif. [Web]. Retrieved from http://discountbvdtickets.com/