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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 946" data-attributes="member: 1"><a href="https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/8xydwz/social-media-is-ruining-our-memories-v26n1" target="_blank">Social Media Is Ruining Our Memories - Vice</a>Documenting our lives for Snapchat and Instagram can decrease the likelihood of retaining those moments as a significant memory. Somehow, whenever I find myself scrolling aimlessly on my personal Instagram feed, I always end up near the end, fixated on the first photos I posted, in June 2016. I don’t know if it was the music—Rihanna, Chance, Drake, and Kanye all released life-changing albums around then—or the freedom that came with traipsing all over Europe those three months, but that summer is the last one that’s really clear in my memories. I’ve posted scores of better-edited, higher-quality photos in the three years since, but those old photos never fail to stop me in my tracks, dousing me in waves of nostalgia. To my followers, that summer was neatly summed up in six simple rows of three perfectly sectioned squares. Yet when I look closely at these posts, I realize that the moments I remember most poignantly are the nights out and secret beaches I never thought to document for social media—I was too busy soaking it all in.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 946, member: 1"] [URL='https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/8xydwz/social-media-is-ruining-our-memories-v26n1'][B]Social Media Is Ruining Our Memories - Vice[/B][/URL] [I] Documenting our lives for Snapchat and Instagram can decrease the likelihood of retaining those moments as a significant memory. [/I] Somehow, whenever I find myself scrolling aimlessly on my personal Instagram feed, I always end up near the end, fixated on the first photos I posted, in June 2016. I don’t know if it was the music—Rihanna, Chance, Drake, and Kanye all released life-changing albums around then—or the freedom that came with traipsing all over Europe those three months, but that summer is the last one that’s really clear in my memories. I’ve posted scores of better-edited, higher-quality photos in the three years since, but those old photos never fail to stop me in my tracks, dousing me in waves of nostalgia. To my followers, that summer was neatly summed up in six simple rows of three perfectly sectioned squares. Yet when I look closely at these posts, I realize that the moments I remember most poignantly are the nights out and secret beaches I never thought to document for social media—I was too busy soaking it all in. [/QUOTE]

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