Scrapbooking Parallels Modern Social Media

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In the world of newspaper websites, Facebook, Twitter, Tumbler and other social media, the idea of making scrapbooks may seem old fashioned. But as UMass alumna Ellen Gruber Garvey, a professor at New Jersey City University and author of the book "Writing with Scissors," says, there are some notable parallels between "scrapbooking" and the role of social media in contemporary life.