Social Media Helps Recall Past Events

                Posting personal experiences on social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter could make those events much easier to recall, the first study to look at social media’s effect on memory suggests. If people want to remember personal experiences, the best way is to put them online. Social media – blogs, FB, Twitter and other alike – provide and important outlet for us to recall memories, in the public space, and share with people. Researchers have long known that when people write about or share personal experiences, they tend to remember those events much better. Likewise, events posted online were more likely than those not posted to be remembered over time.