Does Twitter Make You Dumber?
Does Twitter make you dumber?
According to one psychologist, yes it does.
Dr. Tracy Alloway from University of Stirling in Scotland, who studies working memory, recently told an audience at the British Science Festival that some social-media behaviors are much more conducive to developing working memory than others.
In her opinion Facebook is good while twitter is not.
In fact, she sees microblogging activities such as twitter as reducing a person’s attention span.
On the other hand, Alloway sees participating in facebook as enhancing intelligence.
Interesting but I’m not buying it. To me, both social media behaviours can be as intelligence enhancing or intelligence numbing as you choose. It all depends on what you do with them and who you are following.
What do you think?
