![]() Obviously, this was not supposed to happen. Offering you a memory from days gone by every day so that you’ll share it out once again can, I guess, be called “engagement,” but it’s pretty cheap swill.Īnd since the News Feed is already a bit of a wasteland of algorithmically curated dreck that fits your predetermined filter bubble, perhaps Peak Memory will lead us on a slide down into the Slough of Eternal Repetition, which finally be the end of our time on Facebook altogether. In light of the constant flow of revelations that show just how much Facebook views our contributions to its database in terms of cold dollars and opportunity for monetization, it’s no surprise that turning your nostalgia into a digital economy was a cynical calculation from the start. Let’s be honest, oblivion is the fate this feature - and all of Facebook, really - deserves. I suspect if it hadn’t been spring break and Easter/Passover, there wouldn’t have been much new there at all. A recent scroll through mine showed some updated profile pictures, a handful of Instagram pictures that were cross-posted to Facebook and no less than five memories. I don’t know what’s happening on your feed, but it feels like we’re getting close. If at some point, when we stop posting anything new, Facebook will inevitably hit Peak Memory, and the site’s News Feed will collapse upon itself, a heap of re-posted content from the year before, the two years before, the four years before. The “Memories” feature might work in the short term to keep us coming back, to keep us re-posting, to keep retraining its algorithm as to what memories we really value but, long-term, it’s Facebook’s Ouruboros -the snake that eats its own tail. It’s a cheap ploy to keep us creating new posts, keep us interested, at a time when our interest is starting to drift away.Īnd my regular re-posting introduces a bit of a plot twist, here. Now, though, I think Memories is the platform’s most cynical element. Heck, I’ve re-posted it three years in a row. I mean, I have posted some hilarious things that my son said when he was little, and that time I went on a reporting trip to Area 51 was seriously cool. Her latest column is below.įacebook’s “Memories” feature - where it shows you pictures and posts from a day in the recent or far-gone past - used to be my favorite thing about the platform. You can also send it as a link on Messenger, which is separate and can be used without Facebook.Molly Wood, host of Marketplace Tech, is an ongoing contributor to Wired’s Ideas section. You can post this memory on your Facebook Feed. Users who wish to access memories through the website can scroll through the menu on the left side of their Facebook homepage. It will be available by tapping the three horizontal lines in the bottom right corner of your screen. Open Memories from your Facebook menu.To share a memory from the On This Day feature: ![]() You can post it on your timeline, send them in messages, and even tag specific people. ![]() The first thing that most users discover is the option to share their memories with others. Let's see how you can share, save and manage your memories. ![]() You can use the On This Day feature to better manage your Facebook profile. Open it to view your activity on the same date previously. Select the Menu by tapping the three lines in the bottom right corner of the page.Users can access the On This Day feature on Facebook by the following method.
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