The White House is collecting and storing comments and videos placed on its social-networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube

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When my friends post comments to my Facebook page, I don’t archive their posts. Do you? Do you even have that capability? Why does the White House have the capability to archive posts on Facebook that other users do not? And if you DID have this capability, wouldn’t you let your friends know, “Hey, by the way, I plan to collect all the information you send my way.” I would immediately wonder, “Why do you need to do that?”

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Of course they are archived. You can go back from the time you opened your account and see what anyone has written. Sure you can delete your comments, but you can always copy it, post it yourself and then no one can touch it.

Would I do this to a person who told me about their pizza lunch? Probably not. If anyone ever wrote something derogatory or threatening I would probably save it.

If I had ever written to the WH under GW or wrote on the WH FB page you better believe I know that it would be archived indefinitely.

Maybe I’m only seeing what I want to see with your post, but I really don’t get your surprise and irritation.

The internet is not private- even your own e-mail accounts aren’t private. Hell, even your phone calls aren’t private anymore. I’m pretty sure two cans tied together with strings are private though.