Your life will be forgotten. Welcome to the new digital dark ages.

Approximately 200 years ago a magical device was created. It could capture real-life images and preserve them on paper. This amazing technology was the early invention of the camera. For the next 150 years, owning a camera was extremely rare. Even having your photo taken was considered a luxury. Due to the cost, photographs were taken infrequently and reserved for only important occasions. Owning a camera was so exclusive, that there are only two known photos ever taken of Abraham Lincoln during his famous Gettysburg Address.

Now fast forward to present day. Because of the advances of technology, the camera is now built into almost every electronic device. It is put into every phone, every tablet and every laptop. There are more people using cameras today than that of the human population 100 years ago. Taking a photo has become trivial and meaningless. Hundreds of millions of photos are now taken every day: selfies for Instagram, funny faces for Snapchat, Starbucks drinks for Facebook, and even parking spaces to remind you where you parked at the airport.

But this doesn’t mean important moments are not being captured. They still are, but those important memories are being buried and lost amongst a mound of photos that will eventually be forgotten or deleted. This is the new “digital dark age”. Originally many people referred to the digital dark age as a possible future situation where it will be difficult or impossible to read historical electronic documents and multimedia, because they have been recorded in an obsolete and obscure file format. But the situation is much worse because it is being compounded by a massive quantity of worthless photography that contain no historical significance.

Humans are using the wrong tools to preserve personal historical information.

Facebook, Twitter and Instagram are communication tools. We use these tools to communicate our daily life. Some times it’s a rant about the weather, other times it’s to announce the achievement of graduating college. Unfortunately for most of us, our wall post will be your legacy. The problem is no one will want to cull through your boring daily thoughts.

Photo storage platforms like iPhoto, Flicker, or Dropbox are a warehouse for storing every image taken. How many time have you sifted through hundreds of images looking for the one important photo? Unfortunately, these are closed network and future generations will not have access or even the knowledge that these accounts exist. Any platform where you are paying a yearly fee for storage is a disaster waiting to happen. One day, when you drop dead, those storage platforms will try to renew the yearly fee. But they can’t… because your credit card has be terminated…. and because your dead! So they will then terminate your account and every photo that you had ever saved will be gone.

Your memories will be gone in a blink of an eye.

If you are like me, you should freaked out. No one wants to think that their life was forgettable. Everyone wants to be remembered, everyone wants to have some sort of legacy. Right?

I decided it was time to preserve history for the future. So I built Lifeblink, a free platform that allows users to capture, organize and preserve important moments for family, friends and future generations. By taking the best sharing features from social networks and the best organizational features from storage networks, we were able to build the perfect platform for saving personal history. Over the next few years Lifeblink will grow to become the leading technology for storing the entire history of the human race. Life is a series of memories, it’s time to preserve them.