When it's more than a few weeks or months old it's contemporary history, not news.

It's honestly important to keep track of not just the events of the past which were considered worth commenting on at the time, but what those comments were. Helps you not to forget the context of the present, accidentally start thinking shit like ICE isn't exactly eh kind of fascist death squad we used to write fiction about and is just normal.

Only keep tabs on your own history if you've got an incredibly strong stomach for cringe or are just a masochist. There's a reason I delete all my posts and accounts on the reg and that reason is primarily so future me can't study them.