Did You Really Want the World to Know That?

I was doing a little research on the presidential candidates and came across the fact that there's some questions about Barak Obama's drug use. And where do the questions arise from? Well he wrote a memoir in 1995 Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance where he wrote: "Pot had helped, and booze; maybe a little blow when you could afford it. Not smack, though." I didn't read the actual book so I don't know what the context of the sentence is, but I can certainly imagine a teacher, agent or editor encouraging him to put something colorful in his memoir. Put something in there that would make it more interesting for the readers. I wonder how he feels about that line today while he is running for president.

So I don't bring this up to discuss Barak Obama . I brought it it because there are millions of people out there blogging and putting down in writing what they are doing and/or thinking. With the plethora of information out there that will be in the haystack ready to find twenty years from now, how will that information impact people's futures 20 or 30 years from now? After all, what a 20 year old thinks or does, may not be relevant to what the same person does at 60, but will the 60 year old be judged on the thoughts of the 20 year old?