How Many Resources Shared on Social Media Have Been Lost? (2012)
Yep. The way social sites encourage you to share your content via their websites and only their websites is not good for longevity of content. It will disappear over time.<p>I do think you need your content in a share friendly way in order to get any visibility anymore, but you also need to keep a &#x27;non-social&#x27; version of it (linked from the shared version) if you want it to stick around for the long haul and maintain link integrity.<p>I still pay for web hosting, and if I ever get a solid weekend again I intend to put up a much simpler, almost early WWW homepage, and Archive.org friendly, to store my projects and thoughts on, that I plan to keep up as long as I&#x27;m still kicking (the domain might eventually change, I haven&#x27;t settled on that yet).<p>I used to want to show off my web developer skills and make fancy pages, but that just makes me never get around to finishing and&#x2F;or updating them. There&#x27;s a reason busy people often have bare-bones websites, and you can still make a simple website look decent with HTML and CSS.