Social network sites risk infantilising the mid-21st century mind

[anam_moon]

Social network sites risk infantilising the mid-21st century mind, leaving it characterised by short attention spans, sensationalism, inability to empathise and a shaky sense of identity, according to a leading neuroscientist.

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[devonapple.livejournal.com]

Too long.

(I'm kidding)

[roseembolism.livejournal.com]

Gol darn it, I toldja when ya came up with this "writing" thing, it would rot yer brains! An now look at ya! All this talking, and writing, and making friends, and is ANYBODY memorizing the sagas anymore? Anyone?

I THINK NOT!

... Lady Greenfield, professor of synaptic pharmacology at Lincoln college, Oxford ...

[jackkansas.livejournal.com]

Be careful, My Lady. Doctors Richard Alpert and Timothy Leary, formerly of Harvard University, were similarly tempted.

[racerxmachina.livejournal.com]

She says, on Livejournal.

[borderlad.livejournal.com]

Far, FAR too late...

As I recall, "That music you kids listen to these days," has already done this.
Oh, television already did it, too.
And video games.
And cell phones.
And texting.

Mm, fear.

[ladysashi.livejournal.com]

Hate to say it, but I agree 100%. I've been intensely involved in the internet community since it was the BBS community in the 1980's, before browsers, before DSL, when dial-up was an agonizing 12KB download speed. I have to say that the current generation raised on the internet world are really a bunch of screwed up individuals, moreso than I noticed from past generations.

It's mostly their parents' faults, you know. Yuppie corporate-climbers had kids for the sake of having a status symbol; they never wanted to take the proper time to be parents. Instead, they allowed computer games & the internet to act as "babysitters" and moral guides. What they didn't consider was that when you allow an emotional and mental child to have unlimited access to information and other people who's moral standards are less than you own, there will be abuse. Bad behavior, a lack of a moral center, and less respect is the end product. Voila! Instant recipe for a lost generation.

I pray the parents of the future get a clue, before they pass on their uncivilized ways onto another generation.