digital nostalgia - and how the Internet created more of everything, just to diffuse sooner and sooner

i was browsing through facebook, as any average twenty something would do in the 21st century. i don't particularly look at profiles or participate in discussion boards. rather i would just stare at a long news feed, which seems to pop up faster than i can read. it's almost like the new reality show, featuring everyone i've befriended over the years (which isn't many compared to any norm). as colored by my own interaction with every single one, his or her status update mean that much more personal to me. of course, i know very well that im just imagining things.

then time to time i would look shamelessly at my pictures. mainly since i don't keep any pictures on my computer, let alone take, an social-networking site's aggregation of all kinda pictures, which might or might not include a physical me, brings back a certain nostalgia of sort. then i thought for a second, whether as i age a little more, all these will evaporate and disappear. while i still have a few gigabytes harddrive from 2001 with photos, drawings, blogs, emails, and whatnot, it seems less and less likely i will ever invest my time to retrieve them in any meaningful way. and perhaps by the time i need them, that sensitive little needle would just fail.

certainly i feel connected to a larger number of people than i actually am. and im sure my parents did not have such a luxurious life style. it reminds me of how a post-apocalyptic survival shelter includes a huge flat tv. is it okay, if not better, that we just feel more awesome, feel more humane, and feel more loved? i just want to fly to a certain location of a that continent and just want to walk miles with a certain person of that smile. i am uncertain if this instant high dose of digital nostalgia does any good for my sanity.