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Friedrich Nietzsche was 34-years old when he decided to switch his pen for a typewriter, a Writing Ball. He was forced to this move because of a physical impairment on his hands and his eyes. With the help of a typewriter he was able to write with his eyes closed. Interestingly, a friend of Nietzsche (Heinrich Kosilitz) noticed a change in his writing style. “You are right,” Nietzsche replied, “our writing equipment takes part in the forming of our thoughts.” Unfortunately after Nietzsche many many other people are using a typewriter to form their thoughts.  



Forming our thoughts and moreover spreading our thoughts is one of the most trending issues online. In the past people wrote their experiences in a personal diary, a diary secured by a lock. The equipment was just a ballpoint, nowadays you can form your diary on Twitter with a keyboard, music, video and photos.

The impact and influence of computer diaries on our society can be described on the hand of several examples and definitions but I would like to explain the difference on the hand of a thesis of Daphne, student on the Design Academy of Eindhoven and owner of the website http://postparels.blogspot.com. With her thesis Daphne tries to examine and point out the importance of the storage of personal (digital) messages. According to her research people do not collect and store personal digital messages.

Source: http://postparels.blogspot.com/

Ironically, social media messages can not completely disappear, because companies are as we speak recording and storing our data. In contrary with old-fashioned paper diaries, which people can loose or burn in highly emotional status these diaries are forever. So in case people are interested in their digital diaries, they can purchase their paper-diaries including a lock within a few years. Consequently they will pay money for their own data.

Inspiration:

http://postparels.blogspot.com/

The Shallows: How the Internet is Changing the Way we Think, Read and Remember http://www.bol.com/nl/p/engelse-boeken/the-shallows/1001004009664664/index.html