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November 18, 2012 06:00 pm GMT
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Flashbulb Memery
There is a kind of memory called a "flashbulb memory," which is particularly vivid, and forms when something surprising or particularly affecting occurs: JFK, a car accident, or 9/11.What we call memes are the flashbulb memories of the Internet, and they have emerged because there is a missing piece in the way we share and experience the Internet-based phenomena that are so important to us now.Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/qrZh28Z6Y6M/
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