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Metrics provide a means to keep people perpetually and increasingly engaged in their past, making them think about which memories to share and keeping them active memory making practices.
Just a moment...
so what does it mean to remove social posts in an effort to forget?
Remembering or revisiting one’s past, in the cases outlined in this article, becomes equivalent to keeping up with the past as it rapidly accumulates within social media’s archival structures. Guiding, validating, and reinforcing memory making, metrics play a powerful role in social media.