Social media always remembers – which makes moving on from a breakup that much harder

There's no playbook for how to navigate breakups in the digital age. Sean Gladwell/Moment via Getty Images

Before the internet, people commonly burned Polaroids and love letters in a fire as an act of closure following a breakup.

Nowadays, it isn’t so simple. People produce and consume massive amounts of digital stuff – 33 trillion gigabytes of online data in 2018 alone, a number that has surely grown.