I Can’t Disappear: Living life after growing up online.
I'm past it now, the major nervous part of it all. I'm past the wondering and the digging. I've almost accepted it. I grew up online. From the days when I would wait all day for a demo to download from Happy Puppy, just to have my connection interrupted by my mom trying to make a phone call. I ran e-feds, hosted GeoCities sites and toyed around with Netbus on ICQ. I grew up online. Now, as I wait for the good-feels that come with every like and thumbs-up, I wonder about the decades of data I put out there. [...]