Facebook is Regressing Your Brain

// added February 24, 2009 // 11 comments //
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/feb/24/social-networking-site-chang...

Have you lately felt the urge to start sucking your thumb? Cry when you're hungry or cold? Wear a diaper?

Well, this might be a symptom of too much Facebook. Social networking sites are reorganizing the minds of its users, giving them shorter attention spans, inability to empathize, and a taste for sensationalism. Essentially, it's giving you BABY BRAIN!

It's also changing the way we communicate to get our point across. Notice how I'm using tiny paragraphs so that your eyes don't skim over a block of text in a "I couldn't be bothered to read THAT MUCH" kind of blur?

Not only are our brains being scrambled like eggs on drugs, but we're loving it! Encouraging it! Recommending it to our stupid friends who haven't yet been sucked in. Social networking sites give us a sense of validation, the comfort of knowing that we have a ridiculous amount of friends who are devoting hours of their lives to read about how we do on a movie quiz, what we think about Rod Blagojevich's hair, or who we've poked today.

So what's the cure? Surely it can't be as simple as reading a book, listening to classical music, or watching a movie made before 1964.

Yes, yes it can. Now go Twitter about it.

--St_Alia_10191
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11 comments // Facebook is Regressing Your Brain

  • TheColorYellow
  • doesten
    • 0
      doesten  

    • now facebook myspace whatever.... but i can't wait until they build zion's mainframe and then plug each of us into the matrix until we wake up in the real world.

    • 11 months ago
  • sk8bs55
  • GoSkateAllDay
  • jyotti
  • NataleDante
    • 0
      NataleDante  

    • This is biased and negative.

      Social networking sites don't just exist so that hyper twelve year olds can add every person they like. They also allow you to, you know, network... socially. Weird, huh?

      They give you the ability to communicate text, pictures, and data in a succinct, easy to use way, rather than the clunky and slow process of conventional email. They support rapid updates, messaging, IMing, and multimedia. They are not the enemy here. They are Web 2.0, which I completely support.

    • 12 months ago
  • GatorMonkey
    • 0
      GatorMonkey  

    • "ridiculous amount of friends "

      some of us only "friend" people we actually know and love. some of us don't friend anyone who sends a request. If its not someone I would personally update on my life, I won't friend you.

      and some of us use it as a means of staying in touch with our family and friends back home.

      I don't know about anyone else but I don't have time to call everyone everyday to see how they are doing. I moved 3K miles away from my family and friends. With Facebook and other social networking sites I am able to stay in touch with everyone and they with me.

      PS = Current is a social networking site.

    • 12 months ago
  • GatorMonkey
    • 0
      GatorMonkey  

    • "It's also changing the way we communicate to get our point across. Notice how I'm using tiny paragraphs so that your eyes don't skim over a block of text in a "I couldn't be bothered to read THAT MUCH" kind of blur?"

      Actually - that is just proper writing. If you were taught to write in long-winded and list-like paragraphs, you were taught incorrectly.

    • 12 months ago
  • ZombiePhil23
  • Fortunes
  • snackynak
    • 0
      snackynak  

    • Social networking sites also allow people to meet, who never would of crossed pathes otherwise. Plus for people like me, who were in the military, makes it easier to maintain contact, dispite the fact that the people i met in the army are spread out all over the world. So, its kind of a double edged sword.
      Like everything, it just needs moderation.

    • 12 months ago
  • liebebass

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