Proof! Facebook makes you smart, but Twitter makes you stupid
We’re paraphrasing heavily there, in a doubtless irresponsible media manner. Scottish academic Dr Tracy Alloway has revealed research into the effect on your “working memory” of using social media.
Apparently, Facebook is good for it, improving your ability to temporarily store and manipulate information in your short-term memory. Twitter is not so good though: its endless stream of information that doesn’t need to be processed reduces your attention span.
Which reminds us… Oh no, sorry, it’s gone. What were we talking about again?
September 8th, 2009 at 10:50 am
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September 8th, 2009 at 11:45 am
Me use Twitter and me not stoopid
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