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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
imageThere'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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