The net doesn't fail to remember a thing. It's drifting about out here, zillions of bits and bytes. Thus creating a fixed record because anything ever blogged or written online is stored somewhere permanently. Things travel round a tad, of course, however it all seems to hang around. Thusly anything electronegative written about you, libel it's called, can break your character for years.
It's as if the primary intention society gets online isn't for convenience, but only to cast stones at eac...