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15/05/2013
According to the Daily Mail, researchers from the University of California conducted the first study focused on 'digital dumping', and found that a third of people struggle to delete photos from their time in the relationship on social networks.
As a result, this was found to lengthen the pain and upset over a broken relationship because digital photos and messages act as a "constant reminder" that they are unable to escape from.
Of those surveyed, half did admit to deleting everything that reminded them of past relationships immediately, but once they did, they regretted the decision.
Steve Whittaker, a psychology professor at the University of California Santa Cruz who worked on the research, said: "People are keeping huge collections of digital possessions.
"There has been little exploration of the negative role of digital possessions when people want to forget aspects of their lives."
In his paper, Design for Forgetting: Disposing of Digital Possessions after a Breakup, Whittaker and co-author Corina Sas, of Lancaster University, looked into the challenges of digital possessions, and their disposal after a romantic break-up.
'Digital possessions' include photographs, messages, music and video stored across a number of devices, including computers, tablets, phones and cameras.
During interviews with 24 people aged between 19 and 34, Whittaker and Sas found that digital possessions after a break-up are often upsetting, leading to "distinct disposal strategies".
Twelve of the participants were 'deleters', eight were viewed as 'keepers', while the remaining four were 'selective disposers', who picked and chose what they decided to get rid of and what they kept. They also discovered that some of the heartbroken wanted to forget but were "extremely resistant to actual deletion", a feeling most common among those who had been dumped by their partner.
The study also found that of those who deleted their digital memories, many later regretted getting rid of everything, with some of the participants admitted they immediately 'unfriended' or blocked ex-partner's from accessing their profile. A majority also admitted that the hardest part of an online breakup was changing a relationship status to 'single.'
(JP/CD)
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Facebook 'Makes It Harder' To Get Over Break-Up
Research has found Facebook is making it harder than ever for people to get over a break up.According to the Daily Mail, researchers from the University of California conducted the first study focused on 'digital dumping', and found that a third of people struggle to delete photos from their time in the relationship on social networks.
As a result, this was found to lengthen the pain and upset over a broken relationship because digital photos and messages act as a "constant reminder" that they are unable to escape from.
Of those surveyed, half did admit to deleting everything that reminded them of past relationships immediately, but once they did, they regretted the decision.
Steve Whittaker, a psychology professor at the University of California Santa Cruz who worked on the research, said: "People are keeping huge collections of digital possessions.
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"There has been little exploration of the negative role of digital possessions when people want to forget aspects of their lives."
In his paper, Design for Forgetting: Disposing of Digital Possessions after a Breakup, Whittaker and co-author Corina Sas, of Lancaster University, looked into the challenges of digital possessions, and their disposal after a romantic break-up.
'Digital possessions' include photographs, messages, music and video stored across a number of devices, including computers, tablets, phones and cameras.
During interviews with 24 people aged between 19 and 34, Whittaker and Sas found that digital possessions after a break-up are often upsetting, leading to "distinct disposal strategies".
Twelve of the participants were 'deleters', eight were viewed as 'keepers', while the remaining four were 'selective disposers', who picked and chose what they decided to get rid of and what they kept. They also discovered that some of the heartbroken wanted to forget but were "extremely resistant to actual deletion", a feeling most common among those who had been dumped by their partner.
The study also found that of those who deleted their digital memories, many later regretted getting rid of everything, with some of the participants admitted they immediately 'unfriended' or blocked ex-partner's from accessing their profile. A majority also admitted that the hardest part of an online breakup was changing a relationship status to 'single.'
(JP/CD)
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