Does Facebook prolong heartbreak?
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She left you for a Crocs-wearing busker from Bhutan, straight after you lost three fingers in a hang-gliding accident.
He left you for an administrative assistant from Wisconsin, three months after he asked you to marry him. A month later, he married the assistant in Madison. Wait, he met the assistant from Wisconsin the night he proposed to you?
How are you supposed to get over these things? In the world of Facebook, how are you ever supposed to forget them?
Scientists are now becoming increasingly concerned that it’s possible you never will.
As the Daily Mail reports, Facebook makes it far too easy not only to stare at images of the past, but to cyberstalk images from the present.
Where once your mind could begin to forget, because it had fewer reminders from the past, now they’re but a click and a heart palpitation away.
The Mail quotes Nigel Shadbolt, the chairman of the Open Data Institute and a leading British multidisciplinary scientist, as saying: “When bad, sad or indifferent things happened to us, over time you forgot. That is why time could be a great healer.”
Now time can do little when Facebook makes it stand still. You don’t merely hear that your ex is marrying… [Read more]
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