Emmalina, Tasmania's 18 year old YouTuber has had her 15 minutes of Warholian fame and says that's enough! 

Is this just another example of concern over personal information being too easily available, and persisting, in digital public fora? And increasingly so without permission, as today's Sydney Morning Herald article describes.

On the weekend I had a chat with a colleague who has taken down his personal website which had been in place for 6 or so years since his Uni days (a 'blog', from the pre-blog days).  This site carried commentary and opinion on many issues worthy of a Uni student, but now less relevant given his stage in life, and particularly his impending marriage (his views on certain matters pertaining to the opposite sex aren't really appropriate or valid any longer!). So, he has taken down some of what he put into the cyber-community - but, no doubt, it still exists somewhere, cached somewhere, potentially ready to be exposed at some point in the future. 

Another colleague once enquired about the longevity of an article hosted at a local newspaper website - unfortunately, a 'Google' search of a relative's name brought up as the first response a rather unsavory  article about an incident that generated some negative mass-media coverage, although the subsequent clearing of his name didn't.

So, to the extent we can, how we manage today the cyber-exposure of our thoughts, opinions, biases and prejudices, has impact into the future.

When  Emmalina is a few years older, she is likely to interviewing for that important job somewhere.  I wonder if a simple 'Google' or YouTube search will locate her (sometimes very frank) You Tube admissions, which she might then look back on and rather they had stayed as private conversations?