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How deleting old social media content affects personal memory

I deleted all my old posts from high school because they were embarrassing but now I feel like I erased part of my history

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Curating our past to match our present self can rob us of the full story of who we have been and how we have grown.

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“Where Are You with Social media — psychological effects?”

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