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Can you trust your memories?
CNN asks, Do digital diaries mess up your brain?
An interesting question. In the past folks had to rely on their memories, fading photographs, or their siblings' recollections to recall an event or a person. Now, people can check their Twitter feeds, Facebook entries, or blogs to remember what happened a year ago. When you read in your blog that your sweetheart wore blue jeans and a faded Cardinals ball cap when he proposed, it brings back a more vivid picture in your mind's eye.
But then what happens to the memory you had before you read your blog from a year ago? Do you discard the memory that had your guy in sweatpants and a Notre Dame sweat shirt?
Nowadays we don't have to struggle with some memories because they are indelibly etched in our forever storage banks--online, on tape, on digital, on and on. That certainly does do away with having a convenient memory loss however. No longer can people say, "I don't know" or "I don't remember" if the memory is recorded in detail.
What's your take on this? Do you like being able to call up memories through technological means? Or would you like to remember things the way you want to see them?
The conversation continues with you.
Just take it one gigantic, earth-shattering crisis at a time.
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