Digital History

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Searchable childhood posts and decisions to erase or privatize a history | Dead Internet Theory

Dead Internet Theory: Posts made during adolescence can follow people into adult audiences that did not exist when the material was published, encouraging deletion, privacy changes, and deliberate breaks in an otherwise continuous online history.

Children's activity profiles persisting into adult life | Dead Internet Theory

Dead Internet Theory: Data collected about children can become a long-lived behavioral history unless systems define when records expire, how age transitions are handled, and whether childhood labels remain attached after the original purpose ends.