Jeffrey Rosen Nyt News Service

Four years ago, Stacy Snyder, then a 25-year-old teacher in training at Conestoga Valley High School in Lancaster, Pa., posted a photo on her MySpace page that showed her at a party wearing a pirate hat and drinking from a plastic cup, with the caption "Drunken Pirate." After discovering the page, her supervisor at the high school told her the phot...

In this week's New York Times Magazine, I focus on a problem that's affecting more and more people around the globe: How should we live our lives in a world where the Internet records almost everything and forgets almost nothing, where every photo, Facebook status update, Twitter post and blog by or about us is stored forever in the digital cloud? ...

Four years ago, Stacy Snyder, then a 25-year-old teacher in training at Conestoga Valley High School in Lancaster, Pa., posted a photo on her MySpace page that showed her at a party wearing a pirate hat and drinking from a plastic cup, with the caption "Drunken Pirate." After discovering the page, her supervisor at the high school told her the phot...

In this week's New York Times Magazine, I focus on a problem that's affecting more and more people around the globe: How should we live our lives in a world where the Internet records almost everything and forgets almost nothing, where every photo, Facebook status update, Twitter post and blog by or about us is stored forever in the digital cloud? ...