Personal memory in the digital age

People who often watch TV should remember this ad: "You can hear the history of 132 years, you can see the history of 170 years ..." Modern people retain more personal memories than their ancestors did, and even though we have more memories than our parents. "

Until the http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/16333.html of the last century ">90 years ago, photography was seen as a big thing rather than a hobby, and buying a camera cost ordinary workers 3 months ' wages." We want to know the parents of the matter, only through the wedding photos and other life events left to see their demeanor, most of the memory of life depends on their own to tell the line.

Today, we can easily use mobile phone camera video, the next 5-10 years, portable storage space will be larger, photographic devices will be more and more small, will be the birth of glasses and other wearable recording equipment, every minute we saw and heard may be fully recorded. When we tell our children about our experiences, we can quickly locate the photo videos we took, and we have a full record of their growth from the birth of our children, and their personal memories will be more perfect.

What I want to say is that this kind of transformation brings us the confusion and the question, because the human enters this time which can write the history for each person today, actually not too long, we have many not to adapt.

The memory is too messy, the temptation is too much

The things that are easy to acquire do not know how to cherish, this is the common disease of mankind. Memory is easy to obtain, people do not cherish their memories.

Before, there was no more way to record a moment of excitement, so I had to write a diary, and the mind as Xiang Xianglin constantly return to the moment, with the grandchildren when the talk was also structured; now, when the excitement of the moment, we have to pick up the camera to record, then filled with thought that they will be from the beginning to watch the video, Will remember this moment, but often after the film is placed there, the next day to forget.

Moreover, the information we touch now is too messy, and our nerves are more tempted to give us the stories to remember. For parents and ancestors, most of their days are repetitive and prone to fleeting moments. Although looking back, it will make the children feel that life is too wasteful, but they can feel the constant repetition of a little change, and how this change to touch their hearts.

The absence of common memory

Accompanied by information overload, people's common memory is fewer and less. It is now impossible to reproduce a dream of red mansions drama to get to the scene of booming, which is the choice of people forced when resources are scarce. Now, there is hardly anything that everyone in the community knows and is interested in. For example, I quote the first advertisement, for my parents who watch TV every day of course familiar with, but my peers, it is difficult to find a cable TV, even watching TV is online. I can't arouse their sympathy.

Now, different video sites and portals to push the variety shows and news does overlap, can constitute a lot of people to discuss the topic. But see a variety show, A is in Youku look, B is in Sohu to see; with a news, C went to NetEase, Ding went to the Phoenix. A cheerfully talk about today's patch ads, or b eager to share a good thread, they will find that no one sees the same thing with them. Personalized customization is growing more and more will let our common memory less and more, everyone see the world is different.

Even, the same content of the same site may be the audience, such as an open ending of the micro-film, you remember You chose the "Together" ending, your girlfriend remembers you choose the "breakup" ending, perhaps not to divide the winners and losers, you broke up first.

This leads us often to discuss different hobbies in different interest groups, and interest Group A people usually can't understand your hobby B. When you want to further your feelings with anyone, you will find that he doesn't know you that well. Your emotional support will become fragmented. When you can not find another person with you have more common memory, you will slowly lose the ability to empathy, sigh the world without a bosom friend at the same time, you also can not be other people's bosom friend.

Online memories are actually unsafe.

It is difficult to face the mass of material in our lives, nor do we have the desire to properly organize these memories. Most people throw them into the computer or upload them to a cloud store, usually without a backup. Not deliberately think of it, who would not like to see, to tidy up the words, and think which one do not want to lose, the heart of a vexed, and threw it there.

In the long run, this is more likely to be lost than the old method of keeping only a few albums and diaries. What if your hard drive is formatted? What if your photo albums were closed overnight? How will you find your memory?

I remember the years I went to a professional forum, this forum because of the dispute between the manager disappeared, a runaway administrator modified the site domain name orientation, I have no way to retrieve the text I wrote there. In fact, even if I can access, I can only manually open all the pages, and then one to save to the computer. Such data, perhaps because the traffic is too small, search snapshots can not find, but I will feel a part of my life, as the site disappeared together in the dust.

Can affect more people's services, usually also say shut off. Yahoo shut down a long history of hosting personal homepage Service "Global Village"; Grand Light blog "Push him" in the case of no early warning of the page can not be accessed, the export log is not possible; the closure of Google reader is the result of the huge amount of data sharing that people have accumulated. Proving that a larger company cannot afford to record history for mankind.

Some people have sorted out the laws of Internet companies on personal data, found that these provisions generally only limited liability, that is, do not take 100% of user data protection, or even for any company identified reasons to prohibit users access or simply delete user data. After finishing, he laments that before we worry about how to save our data, we worry about whether our data will one day be destroyed, and worry about the fact that the data is not your own in the first place until you are worried about the safety of your data.

The responsibility to save their memories to the computer, they are lazy not to remember their own history, then, once the "extended" problems, we look back to their past, may be a blank.

Make yourself a witness.

I see a lot of services that can help us "get rid of the tedious duplication of work" and complete the personal life record unconsciously. Path can not be manually written "I get up 7 o'clock in the morning Today", Pebble can not manually write "I ran 3 km this morning" or "I have a little high blood pressure today."

But do you really care about this information when you see the machine methodically sorted out the sleep time curve? I bet you would when it was another unread news item, one second quickly flipped over. Many years later, when you look back and ask yourself, "What have I done over the years," there will be no intelligent program to help you summarize your answers.

The "stupid" approach and the "dirt" approach are fundamental ways to help us remember something ourselves. Only the things I try to remember are secure. Let us regain the proven memory that our fathers and grandparents have practiced to honor and treat our memories better:

Do not leave too much information--at least to prioritize your personal photos and videos, to identify your most important classic moments, and the less important handy shots.

Save the most important memories in kind, print the selected photos into albums, record them, or choose a more solid storage style.

? Make sure you remember what happened and how you felt at that time, like every year.

Diligent in writing diaries, periodic summaries, memoirs, and even bookkeeping. Helping seniors write their memoirs is worth the time we spend listening to the old people dictating.

While writing Weibo, don't forget the blog, the role of the blog is that you are deliberately written to help you remember important things. Do not use the "Nine Sudoku Diary" This format tool to assist writing, but should be "I handwritten my heart", what to write, in order to exercise their writing ability ...

The comic book "Chobits", which tells the relationship between man and robot, has this passage:

"We can go beyond the pain of the past with a little bit of time, but the computer will always remember the sad memory unless it is removed by the host," he said. On the contrary, even the most important memory will be lost by the hand of others. For anyone, memory should be important, but computers can't do it on their own. ”

If we think that our memories are entrusted to the computer will be assured, then I am worried that we will become like computers, can not be independent of their memories. The ability to retain this memory will be our gift to ourselves and future generations, this gift can make us more humane, easier to have a common feeling, cherish what we have.

Author Introduction: Li Shuai, freelance writer, has been a portal editor. Focus on mobile internet and entrepreneurial investment in the field of dynamic, the development of new media also has a strong interest.