That is not the case!
Everything we have posted here will forever be available, not only to our current generation, but for generations to come.
Yes, over a century from now, descendants of mine will be able to pull up all my posts here on the Free Republic and determine that a) I had a guilty pleasure for Partridge Family music and b) I once served a grilled hamburger to one of my relatives that had mosquitoes on it.
And that's just scratching the surface!
Yes, the technology already exists to resolve our screen names here to our real names in actual life. In the future, it will be incredibly easy to data-mine every single thing we ever posted to the internet.
“What’s funny about this thread is that many here labor under the delusion that they are posting here anonymously.”
Truedat. There are no secrets on the Interwebs.