Permission to delete posts
This is your sign to delete that post that, for one reason or another, makes you uncomfortable just knowing it exists. Even if it’s old and the chances of anyone ever seeing it are extremely low.
Delete it. I know something in you says it’s better to ignore its existence and move on. That’s true. But you could also delete the post and forget about it once and for all.
You don’t want to give it importance, because you know it’s not that important, but you still want to delete it.
You don’t want to see the title sitting there in your post archive; you don’t want to think about what’s stored inside those insignificant kilobytes of data in the vastness of the internet.
It’s not that deep, and precisely because of that, you should delete it.
Delete it because you shouldn’t care if people point fingers at you for deleting posts. Delete it because you can and because you want to.
In fact, I dare you to write a really conflictive, controversial post, one that makes it to the Bear Blog front page; one that irritates the community and generates replies. And then, after all that traction, delete it.
Delete it and act a little unhinged, not caring if people call you out for backing down on what you originally said. Don’t respond to the dozens of replies other bloggers wrote just to judge your words. Deny the post ever existed.
When you delete it, the most invested ones will point out that you deleted it. The purists will lose their minds looking for it, trying to remember what it said. They won’t let the conversation die easily. You’ll end up in the gazette or whatever. Some people’s lives will be ruined.
And your next post will be a lovely little chronicle about the last coffee shop you visited. With photos of the dessert and the latte you ordered.
Because that’s how it should be. That’s what personal expression is about. Today we’re one way, and tomorrow we’ll be another. So delete the post and be happy.