Agree on one level, but on the contrary, if we give the medium its due, it is much more conducive to memorialization than the pre-digitized/non-digitized world. I think this question might help future "anthropologist-like" professionals to go about understanding the developments much better than what we can do today. This is to say that there is significantly better contextual returns when asking this question in a digitised environment than in a non-digitized environment like in-person physical conversations and other similar events.

Agreed. Not everything is worth saving. You aren't special. That's okay.

I think everyone is special enough that their life data warrants preserving. If archeology and history has taught us anything, is that we are curious about the daily lives of ordinary people, to be able to understand and delete to our ancestors.

Archaeologists don't want everyone's data. They want samples.

Were you never curious "What did the Romans or Egyptians really think about X? How did they really spend their days?"

I know I am curious and history books leave more questions than answers. Even the most well preserved facts about kings/dynasties/wars are partial at best and leave out so many interesting things out...

My feeling is that archeologists et al would love 10x or 1000x more data about what happened in the past -- not to have to guess everything and never be sure "is that really what happened?"

It's not clear to me that you really do someone a favour by archiving their data forever.

An awful lot of digging into people's past online is done for mean-spirited reasons like finding something to embarrass them.