Facebook can make 'moving on' difficult after breakup - NDTV

Even though photos of your ex on Facebook can be deleted with just a click, the proliferation of social networking sites has made forgetting after a break-up a bigger chore, a new study has found. "People are keeping huge collections of digital possessions," said Steve Whittaker, a psychology professor at UC Santa Cruz who specialises in human-computer interaction. "There has been little exploration of the negative role of digital possessions when people want to forget aspects of their lives," said Whittaker. Whittaker and co-author Corina Sas, of Lancaster University, examined the challenges of digital possessions and their disposal after a romantic breakup. Digital possessions include photos, messages, music, and video stored across multiple devices such as computers, tablets, phones, and cameras, researchers said. Their pervasiveness "creates problems during a breakup, as people 'inhabit' their digital space where photos and music constantly remind them about their prior relationship." via Technology - Google News http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNGLCKza6WGeZbdhUZOwDDJRd4Zsew&url=http://gadgets.ndtv.com/social-networking/news/facebook-can-make-moving-on-difficult-after-breakup-366320

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