Darren Criss on Tumblr:

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Paul Wontorek: Do you, every once in awhile just to amuse yourself, go on Tumblr and look up your name?
Darren Criss: I, I refuse. I just—It’s so—It, to me, it is opening the floodgate to a really scary world.
Paul: [To the camera] He loves you all, but he doesn’t want to look at it.
Darren: Yea! Well, no, I’m sure it’s like—And I get sent a lot of fun stuff and I’ll happen upon things, a lot of really great gifs that are hilarious, a lot of memes and stuff. You know, your—your form of expression on Tumblr—Like, my brother made a really great point. He’s like, “Tumblr is like your high school locker, except everyone can see it, and it’s forever.” And, uh, you know, it’s this form of expression where you kind of have your favorite bands and all the things you like, but you know, when you graduate, that’s it, it’s gone. It’s a new locker, someone else’s locker, no one’s ever gonna see that. But when you open it at the time it’s, like, kind of an expression of who you are. Because it’s on the internet, what I think some of these kids don’t understand is that it is absolutely forever.
Paul: Right, right.
Darren: It is a tube of toothpaste. Once it’s out there, you can’t cram it back in. And I think there’s this idea that, uh, when you post something, that we’re not gonna see it, you know, as if I don’t have an inter, internet connection. As if I am not also part of the digital age of social media. And there’s this idea of, like, separation. There’s no more separation, the veil has lifted, man. It was lifted at the dawn of, you know, Facebook and MySpace. Like, like—It’s gone.

Love all of this, but (and this has nothing to do with Criss who is just saying what everyone says) am mighty sick of the argument that the Internet is “kids” who “don’t realize the Internet is forever.”

Considering all the secrets people come to the Internet discuss and the lengths people go to to preserve their pseudonymous identities, people know the damn Internet is forever.

People also know that the Internet isn’t forever: their history will get lost in the wash of new technologies, service crashes and noise.

Please stop saying the Internet is full of children who are naive on the subject of the Internet’s permanence and accessibility.  That’s one of the things they’re definitely not naive on.

I think the way people need to start looking at things is that with more and more internet, people have stopped caring that the internet is forever.  Which is a totally different beast.

Alllll of this.