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Social media always remembers – which makes moving on from a breakup that much harder

  • Written by Kate G. Blackburn, Post Doctoral Researcher, The University of Texas at Austin College of Liberal Arts
Social media always remembers – which makes moving on from a breakup that much harderThere's no playbook for how to navigate breakups in the digital age.Sean Gladwell/Moment via Getty Images

Before the internet, people commonly burned Polaroids and love letters in a fire as an act of closure following a breakup.

Nowadays, it isn’t so simple. People produce and consume massive amounts of digital stuff – 33 trillion...

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