What Twenty Years of Social Media Has Done to Our Memories

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What Twenty Years of Social Media Has Done to Our Memories

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What Twenty Years of Social Media Has Done to Our Memories | The Walrus

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Lives aren’t neat narratives of growth and redemption

I love social media. Not only is it a welcome distraction during life’s many dull hours, but it’s also a world-historically essential archive of our recent past. Whether we prefer to admit it or not, social media is where our history lives now, and the platforms have shaped how that history is told.

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