I don t laminate and frame my note-pad doodles, why would I preserve my tweets for all time?
– Matthew Lazin-Ryder, CBC radio producer, explaining to Fusion s Kevin Roose why he s a tweet-deleter. Whether to erase potentially embarrassing fleeting thoughts from years ago or just to put more emphasis on their current state of mind, more people are taking steps to make sure they won t be haunted by what they ve written on Twitter — usually aided by a handful of tweet-deleting apps or by writing a simple piece of code. My opinions aren t permanent in my head (I often change my mind over time), and they re not permanent when shared around the dinner table (nobody is recording our conversations), Facebook product manager Josh Miller told Roose. So it just doesn t make sense to me that they would be permanent online.
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