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I read an article in the NY Times recently that made me think yet again about just what is out there in cyberspace.

Forever.

Never to be forgotten.

Coming back to rear its ugly head years later.

I'm not a facebooker or a twitterer. Only a blogger.

Did you know that . . .

Seventy-five percent of U.S. recruiters and human-resource professionals report that their companies require them to do online research about candidates, and many use a range of sites when scrutinizing applicants — including search engines, social-networking sites, photo- and video-sharing sites, personal Web sites and blogs, Twitter and online-gaming sites.

Or can you believe this . . .

Seventy percent of U.S. recruiters report that they have rejected candidates because of information found online, like photos and discussion-board conversations and membership in controversial groups.

How about this . . .

There are more than 100 million registered Twitter users, and the Library of Congress recently announced that it will be acquiring - and permanently storing - the entire archive of public Twitter posts since 2006.

And of course, we all know this . . .

Research in behavioral psychology confirms that people pay more attention to bad rather than good information.

And unfortunately . . .

Unlike God, the digital cloud rarely wipes our slates clean, and the keepers of the cloud today are sometimes less forgiving than their all-powerful divine predecessor.

It's worth a read.

The Web Means the End of Forgetting