Digital Archaeology
What Do the Words We Left on Past SNS Mean to Us Now
Thinking about the words we left on past SNS. How the emotions and relationships from that time appear now. Is it nostalgia, embarrassment, or proof of our growth? From the perspective of digital archaeology, questioning the meaning of excavating our own past digital traces.
Leaving past words is a valuable act that preserves the continuity of the self and visualizes growth.
Immature past words should be deleted as necessary to free the current self.
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When you looked at your old SNS posts, what feelings did you have?
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Reading those words now, which part looks the most different?
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What do you think is the difference between past words you want to keep and those you want to delete?
This theme is not a place to blame your past self, but a place to gently look at the self that changes over time.
- Digital Trace
- Records of actions or posts left online that form the history of the self over time.
- SNS Archive
- The state in which past posts on social media can be saved and viewed.
- Self Archaeology
- The act of excavating one's own past digital data to deepen self-understanding.
Think of one post from your oldest SNS account. Do you remember how you felt when you wrote those words?
Reading those words now, from your current self's perspective, where do you think 'this part has changed'?
- Experiences of sharing past posts with family or friends
- Reasons for leaving accounts without deleting
- Changes in values seen from changes in words