Lasting privacy in the age of Facebook

The NY Times Magazine has a very interesting article up about the interaction between privacy, human memory, judgements on one’s past actions, and the longevity of information in the digital era.  I’m not on Facebook, and the fact that I haven’t updated here since April says something, I’m sure, but I do update my Flickr account on a semi-regular basis, with photos taken every day of my year.  I am, of course, self-editing those photos, and I’m pretty sure there aren’t any drunken photos of me out there (because I don’t recall ever having been that drunk), but the issues raised in the article still give me pause.