SUNSET AND MEMORIES: HOW WE BURY AND MOURN DEAD PLATFORMS

These traces are meaningful for those who create, share, and look back on them. They also provide important evidence for how people engage with social media over time. For example, Brady Robards and Siân Lincoln have conducted a research project in which participants scrolled back through their own Facebook timeline and reflected upon the life narratives contained within the platform (Robards & Lincoln 2016; Lincoln & Robards 2016).