Sharing edited photos and filtered selfies on Instagram can affect our memory of an event, cause memory and distort our self-image. Here, a psychologist explains why.

Instagram memory loss: how editing photos affects our memory

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Some women have become so convinced their filtered faces look better than their real ones that they have even tried to get surgery to change their appearance

The more time you spend imagining a fictitious event, the more that mental experience begins to feel like a real memory

Instagram vs reality: how filtering photos could be causing memory loss