Posting personal experiences on Facebook and Twitter may make those events much easier to recall, suggests a study that examined social media’s effect on human memory. Events posted online were more likely than those not posted online to be remembered over time, regardless of the characteristics of the events, the study said. “If people want to remember personal experiences, the best way is to put them online,” said lead author Qi Wang, Professor at Cornell University at New York, in the US. Memory researchers have long known that when people write about personal experiences, reflect on them or talk about them with others, they tend to remember those events much better. And they rated the event’s personal importance and emotional intensity on five-point scales.

Source: Hindustan Times September 08, 2016 06:11 UTC