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Facebook: You'll Thank Us for the Memories

Posted by Sheila Shayon on August 2, 2012 12:39 PM

It's official: Facebook has replaced a person's memory. The social network's new video promo released today features the following tale: "In 2010, Mayank Sharma of New Delhi, India contracted tubercular meningitis, a serious inflammation of the central nervous system. After a week in the hospital, he emerged without any memory of ever getting sick—or of the first twenty-seven years of his life. He began messaging the people who came up in Facebook's People You May Know feature to start piecing his life back together."

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