In an article written on Slate titled "Google is destroying our memory", the cognitive concept of transactive memory is explored in great detail. Transactive memory is the idea that a couple, or even a group of humans, can divide up certain bits of information between each other that need to be remembered, so that remembering large amounts of information becomes a much more achievable task. While one person would remember the location of a friend's house, another person would have the ability to remember specific information about that friend. Studies supported this concept, as couples who had been together for a long time could collectively remember much larger amounts of information when they were in the same room than when they were all alone (Neyfakh 2013). Our ability to understand what we or other people are good at memorizing, known as meta-memory, is also very relevant in humans and works alongside transactive memory. When we use this meta-memory, we are likely to discard information that we know others will remember, but we retain information that we know cannot be retrieved when communicating with others (Neyfakh