Just when I was just getting started on Twitter, I read this article by Clarissa Catalina Repollo from the China Business Magazine’s October, 2009 issue entitled “Social Not-working”.
The first sentence says “Facebook works the brain, but Twitter is a drain”.
According to Dr. Tracy Alloway, a psychologist at the University of
Stirling in Scotland, “Facebook holds loads of information that helps
people improve their ability to recall information and use it. Twitter
on the other hand, has the opposite effect. It produces streams of
information every second that people, in turn loose the chance to
process every bit of information in the brain.”
With some much information coming in from so many people, the brain
no longer concentrate to process that information since new information
keeps coming in. This is probably the same as watching television.
With the visual and sound stimuli working so fast, we often don’t even
notice the details anymore.
One advise I read was to read mystery novels, the ones that make you
think and try to solve the crime. So right now, I’ve dug out my old
copy of my Agatha Christie and see if I can get my brains working again.
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