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"   Every so often, while sucked into a Facebook vortex, I&amp;#039;ll find myself not on the profile of an ex or old elementary school buddy, but on my very own page, trolling through the (sometimes ridic) things I&amp;#039;ve status-updated about over the years. (It&amp;#039;s kinda like a trip down memory lane, right?) And when I inevitably stumble upon a particularly cringe-inducing status I&amp;#039;ve posted (more often than not a cryptic song lyric that I thought perfectly described how I was feeling about some dumb guy who would never read into said status as I&amp;#039;d hoped he would), I feel slightly embarrassed, sure, but\u2014honestly\u2014who&amp;#039;s going to remember what I wrote on Facebook in February 2009, right? Turns out that, actually, someone might. According to a new joint study from the University of California, San Diego, and the University of Warwick, Facebook status updates are about one and a half times more memorable than sentences from books and almost two and a half times more memorable than faces. (Um, seriously?!)  The research luckily shows that headlines are more memorable than just random sentences (and, hopefully, song lyrics). But what&amp;#039;s kinda crazy about the results is that the study didn&amp;#039;t use statuses from the study participants&amp;#039; social network but rather 200 anonymous posts. So, even when people aren&amp;#039;t our &amp;quot;friends,&amp;quot; we tend to retain info they post on social media pretty darn well.  The lesson we can take from this? Really think before you post something on Facebook. Because, while you can always delete it later, it might not be as forgotten as you&amp;#039;d hope.  Want more from Natasha? Follow her on Twitter or find her on Facebook. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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