Most critics have focused on this reduction of inhibitions in terms of regrettable behavior that may someday become, Facebook-style, memorialized in inescapable social media memory.

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The use of flash memory enables social networking companies such as Facebook to retain acceptable response to traffic-heavy social networking and is behind a great many new cloud based services.

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It was one of the most successful social media engagements in recent memory across the UK, it created buzz and excitement, and it was all built on trust.

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So, in a way, these social environments become an extension of our memory, but not necessarily of our mind and purpose.

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People with autism, a condition characterized in part by poor social skills, tend to have poor episodic memory and also poor ability to anticipate others' reactions or emotions.

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We take photos to capture a memory and share them widely through a social media site like Facebook.

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They also scavenge (detoxify) peoxynitrites and reverse part of their damage including partially restoring function to receptors involved in short-term memory, mood, sleep, smell, social recognition, alertness, and brain growth, increasing the transport of glucose reducing delusions and wandering, improving neurotransmissions by decreasing the hyperphosphorylation and tau proteins, and inhibiting the influx of calcium which kills neurons.

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Part of it might be the delusional notion of preserving a memory, but it's probably more about showing everyone in social media that you're actually out of your house doing something culturally important.

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