News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Social Media: Why it pays to be super awesome to almost everyone online.

Re:Social Media: Why it pays to be super awesome to almost e... by onreact-com on Friday July 10, 2009 @05:39PM (#698448)
"That stuff on the internet? Yeah, it stays around forever."

This is a wide spread myth. I'm on the web since 1997 (I know, I was late). Back then I started with publishing poems online. Most of them are sadly lost and gone forever. I relied on the Web to keep them and was quite sure that by posting them on mailing lists, forums and publishing on websites they will make me a famous poet one day (no, I hoped at least that they will stay available).

Searching today for some of the most ofen published ones yields zero results.

So back up your stuff and don't believe the stays forever thing. I never shun away from an argument online and I'm quite successful on the Web. Of course I do some ORM (Online Reputation management) myself but on the whole I don't have to hide much about me.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Social Media: Why it pays to be super awesome to almost e... by dhs on Saturday July 11, 2009 @05:59AM (#699033)
Did you try http://www.archive.org/web/web.php to retrieve your poems? It worked for me on several occasions, particullary if I still remember the year and the domain name under which a text I searched for where published.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Social Media: Why it pays to be super awesome to almost e... by onreact-com on Monday July 13, 2009 @04:40AM (#701337)
Yeah, Archive.org is great for that but it was so long ago that I don't remember most addresses.
[ Parent | on HN ]