You've made me wonder how much younger than us your acquaintance is? I wonder if that attitude is generational and exemplifies the "attention culture" that's increasingly present.

It was a friend of our daughter's; I'd put her at around 33-35ish? Something like that. Old enough to not just be "a kid," but young enough that she's never known a world without the Internet.

And yes, blogging is precisely like leaving a "window" to a life lived. And that was part of the appeal of Steemit, in the first place... the likelihood that this could truly serve as a place of "long term storage."