Media Archaeology

In our most recent class, we discussed  media archaeology. This concept interests me; I have been wondering lately if my descendants will find my Facebook photos in the way that I can find my great-grandparents' photo albums. There are almost no printed photos of me, and the ones that do exist are from my childhood. If my children and grandchildren want to see my photos from middle school, high school, and college, they will probably need to plug in my old cell phones or access my laptop's hard drive. I have no photo albums to show. Will future generations have access to flash drives, and private social media accounts? Will future societies have historians who work on computers searching for media artifacts? How will my great grandchildren learn about their ancestors' Instagrams, Facebook pages, and Twitter accounts? Most of my accounts are private, meaning the information is not publicly available and probably will not be accessible in the future if it is not currently accessible without approving a request. It scares me to imagine a world where no one knows anything about their ancestors. I'm not sure these websites will still exist in 10 years, let alone 100 years. In fact, I'm not even sure that I will have access to all of my pictures by the time I'm 50. I know for a fact that I don't have any of the pictures from my cell phones before I had an iPhone, because I couldn't connect them to a computer to save them. Also, many of these photos are selfies or involve uninteresting subject matter. I think that as technology evolves, we must also remember to preserve our memories in the manner of "old media", such as non-electronic artifacts.