Imagine that you are a social media consultant, and you are drafting a research report on the benefits and drawbacks of social media platforms including Facebook and Snapchat. As part of your research, you are reviewing sources on this topic.

Write a paragraph that synthesizes ideas from two sources:

Source 1

Excerpt from Source 1: NAME_1 & NAME_2 (2014), "Facebook time: Technological and institutional affordances for media memories"

"In general, Facebook users' experience is very fast-paced, and everything disappears quickly. Users are in an atmosphere of rapid change and forgetfulness, rather than focus and remembering. Every single post, status update, link, and like in a Facebook feed is visible only for a short period of time. New stories are continually appearing, pushing old stories out of sight, downwards in the stream (NAME_3, 2012). This works against the idea that the platform is a tool to help people remember and tell stories."

Excerpt from Source 2: NAME_4 Schoenebeck, & NAME_5 (2016), "Sharing the small moments: ephemeral social interaction on Snapchat" (Source 2 cites Source 1!)

"The small moments shared on Snapchat were not particularly exciting or memorable. In fact, participants usually did not remember most of the Snapchat messages sent or received, nor saw them as consequential. Yet, our data suggest these small moments provided clear benefits to participants; the interactions were associated with positive mood and allowed them to reaffirm connections with close ties. Snap Respond with at most 350 words.
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