5 Weird Negative Effects of Social Media on Your Brain

Beres, D. (n.d.). 5 Weird Negative Effects of Social Media on Your Brain. Reader's Digest. Retrieved on April 20, 2014 from http://www.rd.com/slideshows/negative-effects-of-social-media/#slideshow=slide1

Social media influences on our brain differently. There are five weird negative effects of social media on our brain. First, social media may lead you to higher spending of your money. A research showed that "Heavy social media use might be correlated to lower self-control, which marketing experts believe could lead to higher spending." Second, social media makes you to eat a lot. Third, it messes with your ability to think independently. Fourth, It hurts your self-esteem. A survey showed that one in three people felt worse after spending time on Facebook because they compare themselves to their friends. Fifth, it can deteriorate real life conversation. People's social networking habits might be affecting their brain more than they thing.

A classmate's review

Here is a link to my classmate’s blog.

http://sociallyblogged.blogspot.com/2014/04/is-google-making-us-stupid-by-nicholas.html

 

My classmate Jennifer stated that “today, the vast majority of the world’s intelligence is a keystroke away. While this technology has been beneficial, it has also introduced us to new problems, such as cyber bullying, and game addictions. I believe social networking affects literally every area of our lives in one way or another.”

I agree with Jennifer’s statement. I think that everything has two sides, positive and negative. For example, the internet has many benefits, such as saving our time, providing us with necessary information, being a communicating tool and providing us with convenience. However, it has some negative sides, such as social media addiction, limited thinking, laziness, game addiction and bullying. It is difficult to imagine ourselves without the internet, but we need some time to look at ourselves without being distracted by the internet. I think that living without TV, cell phone, computer and internet for a few days may help us to think deeply and to look at ourselves differently.

Is Google Making Us Stupid?

Carr, N. (2008, July 1). Is Google Making Us Stupid? The Atlantic. Retrieved April 15, 2014 from http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/07/is-google-making-usstupid/306868/

Nicholas Carr's essay "Is Google Making us Stupid" claims that internet affects our way of thinking and making us lazier. Carr noted that the internet influenced his reading ability, for example, before he used to read books without any distractions, but now when he reads articles from the internet, he gets easily distracted. According to Bruce Friedman, the internet has changed his mental habits. He said that "I now have almost totally lost the ability to read and absorb a longish article on the web or in print." The article mentioned that people developed a skimming skill, where they did not read the full article from the internet; instead, they just skimmed the article. Moreover, the internet websites provided the shortened versions of articles, news and summaries of books. This shortcut spared our time, but it decreased our reading ability. As we became more related to the internet, we sopped to exercise our memory and became forgetful.

I agree with Carr’s ideas. The internet makes our life easier, however, it changes our way of thinking and distracts our mind. Even though the internet is beneficial, it develops some problems, such as addiction to social media, which distracts people’s normal life. Also, I think that the internet makes us to think in its way, meaning that the internet limits our way of thinking.

How Twitter Invests in Your Business?

 

 

 

 

 Twitter is a place where more than 240 million people all over the world gather together to talk about their interests, such as local news, sports, rumors and technology. Nowadays, many business owners advertise their products using Twitter and attract followers, or people find new business ideas from Twitter. Twitter is becoming the best place for advertisement to sell products and to benefit the business.

Social Media Addiction

Matsalla, B. (2013, December 12). Social Media Addiction. Liberty Voice. Retrieved April 8, 2014 from http://guardianlv.com/2013/12/social-media-addiction/

Can’t stop tweeting, posting and poking?

It means that you are addicted to social media. Social media is becoming our daily routine like eating, communicating and watching TV. For some people this daily routine becomes their habits, and when their habits interfere with daily lives and predominate daily activities, it becomes an addiction. Social media is more addictive to people who have addictive personalities.
There are some interesting statistics:

 

• "Facebook has 850 million active users, and 488 million of those people use Facebook regularly on their mobile device.
• In 2012, 175 million tweets were sent from Twitter every day. Thirty-two percent of all Internet users use Twitter.
• Instagram had an average of 7.3 million daily active users in 2012, and they averaged 257 minutes accessing the site on their mobile device.
• Google’s famous +1 ‘like’ button is clicked 5 billion times a day."