“Social media is not unlike a personal diary. It is a public diary that has a graph of relationships built into it. But there is a continuity of archival practice.”

Future Historians Probably Won’t Understand Our Internet, and That’s Okay

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/12/it-might-be-impossible-for-future-historians-to-understand-our-internet/547463/