The internet remembers moments the person who posted them may outgrow.

People change faster than their records do. An opinion held at twenty-two, a joke that seemed fine at the time, a photograph from a period you have moved well past, all sit there unchanged while you become someone else. The archive does not update with the person. That gap is worth remembering both about yourself and about others.

Be slower to post things attached to a mood or a phase. And extend to other people the same allowance you would want, since the version you are looking at may be years out of date. Most old material tells you less than it appears to.