Twitter is Full of Dummies (http://www.t…
Twitter is Full of Dummies
(http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/twitter/6147668/Facebook-enhances-intelligence-but-Twitter-diminishes-it-claims-psychologist.html)
Here’s the summary of the report: Twitter makes you dumb, since it’s an endless stream of information that no one really reads. Keeping up with Friends via Facebook makes you as smart as sudoku.
My Angle: What? Is there any actual testing to back this up? Any data? It seems to me that the researcher has a fundamental misunderstanding of the primary uses of Facebook and Twitter. If engagement and reading is the activity on Facebook that improves memory, Twitter is Facebook on crack: primary activities on the site are reading news links and engaging in conversation.
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