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Hennessy Sak
Dr. Yuemin He
College Composition II/SEC 526
26 March 2020
Relevancy in the Digital Age
The permanence of what one posts to the internet can be daunting—once something is
shared online, theoretically, it can stay there forever. What is even more frightening is that one’s
data shadow—the online entity that consists of everything posted about an individual—can
continue to grow even when an individual is not actively online. The potential consequences that
arise from not only the permanence of one’s posts on social media, but the posts made about
someone by others, are explored in Kate Eichhorn’s The End of Forgetting: Growing Up with
