Although remembering people's names is a powerful social tool, you shouldn't infer from the article that forgetting someone's name (a very common faux pas, in t

Although remembering people's names is a powerful social tool, you shouldn't infer from the article that forgetting someone's name (a very common faux pas, in the title of the article) is tantamount to forgetting having met someone (the leading "Jerkface" example in the article). Recognition and recall are two very different things. The article conflates failures of recognition (X doesn't remember ever meeting Y) with failures of recall (X doesn't remember Y's name).