Check out this innocent but with a bit cunning smiling icon!! This is an online forum from Hong Kong called "LIHKG" where members can post and reply to anything in the group under a feigned name. However, unless you have the permission of the admin, members cannot delete what they had sent or posted. One role that the digital curation acts as is the "Storage" - keeping data and undertaking actions to ensure the long-term preservation. This function takes me in to consideration of what I can say and what I can't for the online presence. Since all the information can be backed up, in case I don't want any disturbance in my daily life, I have to double check everything for example blurring user icon in some captures, deleting personal features in photos before I post it online. I'm afraid of being shown to the whole world... Well, digital curation is an double-edged sword. It helps to store general information for future research but at the same time it saves individual information which is a threat to our personal security. Like if you become famous, the haters can search for your past experience and bad-ass histories to reduce your fame. But that's how we create and enlarge the technology spectrum - we take in and spread out, we reply and share. We want to gain and don't want to loss, so we invest different kinds of security methods to prevent it. We are improving the technology world. Besides, it is very often that we spend more and more time on informative media. Use "YouTube" as an example, when I finished one video, there are always other videos for me to choose. The auto-play function and the preference videos in the right hand side, the subscribe bottom, the alert function, etc. It recommends several additional videos for me to watch and I can just click on it and there will be other options in the next video! This kind of selecting system is in a hoop that never ends. That's why I keep watching YouTube when I start with the first one... It's crazy that I'm putting tonnes of time in it unconsciously!!! I beg you too!! I think these are the format of organization display in the digital curation. Through our selections in several spectrum, the online archiving technology seems to connect with us by remembering our preference and giving options for what we would like to explore. It organizes a access for users to create their own online platform which includes the information they are interested in. Our involvement can even help the online companies to make money through several advertisements. Moreover, the online archiving technologies' sorting system can be improved by filtering what the general dislike or seldom search for. This helps to boost the selection and organization process. Last but not least, social media is acting an important role in our daily life. It forms a social network between the individuals. For example this well-known application - Instagram, which the user can share their movements in the "IG Story" and "IG Post". I use it everyday in every moment. I think that's how I get to know a person because people used to present themselves to others, maybe with friends or even strangers by posting photos and captions that reflect to their current feeling. I probably will reply or send a console to s/he if I noticed they are in some trouble.
I believe that the digital curation ensure that designated users can easily access digital objects on a day-to-day basis. This helps to connect different participates that share common interest and feeling, it's a bounding and a linking. The more we know about someone's daily life, the more conversation we can create in order to hold a relationship. We some how did something consciously under a purpose, but we also unconsciously gain something unexpected. That's how the digital curation shapes the online world, and ours, pause.
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