Saving of public Google+ content by the Archive Team has begun
I'm not sure how I feel about this.Over the last couple years it has become increasingly clear that public personal social media history is a liability. People's histories have often been weaponized against them, and mass processing of social media has been used as a weapon against society as a whole (Cambridge Analytica, etc.).I recently deleted my Facebook account, but didn't take the time to delete Google+ because I figured it was about to disappear anyway. But now it turns out some people are building a public archive of my content, and presumably they aren't going to give me a way to delete it. This makes me uncomfortable. I have now deleted my Google+ history; I hope they didn't get much of it.To be clear, I think the Internet Archive is good people with noble intentions. But given what we've learned recently about social media possibly being a huge mistake... this effort worries me.