I Love My Facebook Memories. I Hate My Facebook Memories.

Facebook is a cobwebbed attic that I can’t seem to leave.

Jacqueline Dooley
Age of Empathy
Published in
6 min readAug 5, 2023

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My daughter Ana, Age 9 — Photo by Author

The first time I posted a photo of my children to Facebook was in 2008 when Emily was 4 and Ana was 7. It wasn’t my plan to turn Facebook into a scrapbook of their lives, but that’s what ended up happening.

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Jacqueline Dooley
Age of Empathy

Essayist, content writer, bereaved parent. Bylines: Human Parts, GEN, Marker, OneZero, Washington Post, Al Jazeera, Pulse, HuffPost, Longreads, Modern Loss