They also randomly selected 200 sentences from recently published books, gathered from free text on. They gathered 200 Facebook posts from the accounts of undergraduate research assistants, such as "Bc sometimes it makes me wonder," "The library is a place to study, not to talk on your phone," and the comment about clean bed linen. So the researchers kept their social media windows open. "It was a bit of a surprise for us," Mickes says. But they found that the status updates seemed memorable all on their own. Cognitive psychologist Laura Mickes of the University of California, San Diego, and her colleagues were originally looking into the effects of emotions on memory, and happened to be using Facebook posts to invoke various feelings. The researchers happened upon the findings by accident. Scientists have found that, when it comes to mental recall, people are far more likely to remember the text of idle chitchat on social media platforms like Facebook than the carefully crafted sentences of books.
Little did this person realize, the post would inform our understanding of memory.
#CHITCHAT FOR FACEBOOK UPDATE#
One day in 2011, a Facebook user professed a love for clean sheets, ending the humble status update with a smiley face.
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