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Social networking harmful to health

by on20 February 2009

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Facebook causes cancer, strokes and dementia



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sites like Facebook and MySpace may increase the risk of cancer, strokes and dementia by altering the way genes work, according to a report in the journal Biologist.


Aric Sigman wrote in Biologist that the number of minutes a day Britons interact with other humans has fallen by two thirds in recent decades, from six hours in 1987 to two hours in 2007. Instead the amount of time they spend doing things that remove them from physical interaction like watching television, listening to iPods, playing video games or visiting Web sites, has doubled to eight hours a day.


This lack of "real" interaction combined with a dependence on technology is increasingly tied to physiological changes known to influence morbidity, or the extent of disease, and mortality. This stuffs up hormone levels, immune responses and blood pressure, the function of arteries and the brain.


Sigman said that evolution helps those who connect with other people. Anti-social people are doomed to an early death.

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