Facebook 'enhances intelligence' but Twitter 'diminishes it'
via telegraph.co.uk
This looks like a ridiculously superficial approach to comparing the effects of two different social networking sites on human intelligence.
"Working memory" may be a relevant issue. But many other factors could easily outweigh effects on working memory. The nature of the content posted and the conversations in which one engages on Twitter as compared to Facebook must surely be far more important.
On Twitter, I have engaged in deep conversations and spirited and thoughtful debates on complex issues. And via Twitter, I have been alerted to thousands of articles like this one.
Excuse me a second... What's that Facebook? You want me to do another quiz? Pick 5 foods I hate?
How about I pick 5 reasons why i think this article is crap?
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