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Facebook and Bebo turn you into morons
Here comes the science
Top British shrink Baroness Greenfield has warned that social networking sites are changing children's brains and turning them into selfish and attention deficient young people.
Lady Greenfield, professor of synaptic pharmacology at Lincoln college, Oxford, and director of the Royal Institution said that social network sites infantilise the mid-21st century mind. She said that the startling ministers have not yet looked at the broad cultural and psychological effect of on-screen friendships via Facebook, Bebo and Twitter.
Speaking in the House of Lords said that kids experiences on social networking sites "are devoid of cohesive narrative and long-term significance”.
This means that the mid-21st century mind might almost be infantilised, characterised by short attention spans, sensationalism, inability to empathise and a shaky sense of identity. Apparently this did not happen when she was a girl.
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