Facebook 'enhances intelligence' but Twitter 'diminishes it'
9:31 AM // 0 comments // ngsk // Category: Micro Blogging , News //
As I uses both the sites now I want to spend more time on Facebook rather than Twitter as a leading British psychologist claimed that 'Facebook' enhances intelligence, where as 'Twitter' diminishes it.
According to Dr. Tracey Alloway, from the University of Stirling in Scotland, keeping up with your friends on Facebook has positive results on your working memory. Working memory involves the ability both to remember information and to use it. Dr Alloway has extensively studied working memory and believes it to be far more important to success and happiness than IQ. In fact, her team has developed a working memory training programme that greatly increased the performance of slow-learning children aged 11 to 14 at a school.
Working memory provides happiness and success which is much better than gaining IQ as per Dr Alloway, but how does it boost your intelligence?
In fact, playing video war games and solving Sudoku may have the same effect as keeping up to date with Facebook, while text messaging, micro-blogging on Twitter can weaken "working memory", but how does that make me more intelligent by playing war games on Facebook?
Is it possible that if I am staging a hit on the game Mafia wars on Facebook I am perceived to be intelligent because I can play a game? As this gives you the ability both to remember information and to use it.
Dr Alloway believes that “Video games that involve planning and strategy, such as those from the Total War series, may also train working memory”.
She also mentioned that ''I'm not saying they're good for your socialization skills, but they do make you use your working memory,''
''You're keeping track of past actions and mapping the actions you're going to take.''
Dr. Alloway claims that the "instant nature" of texting or using Twitter is not healthy for our working memory. Seems to me my working memory is shot because I can't figure out how being successful and happy means we are smart. Sometimes you're just lucky. We don't all have to be smart to be successful or successful to be happy. I also can't remember what to buy at the store if I don't have a list, so my working memory is likely to be shot because I am aging.
But the instant nature of texting, Twitter and YouTube isn't healthy for working memory. On Twitter you receive an endless stream of information, but it's also very succinct.
''You don't have to process that information. Your attention span is being reduced and you're not engaging your brain and improving nerve connections. Dr Alloway told was quoted by 'The Daily Telegraph' as saying.
Facebook and Twitter are both great tools for personal and business connectivity. I am not a psychologist, but I can say from my small experience with bot hthe Facebook and Twitter that whether it’s a lengthy message of a small summary, both can enhance my intelligence if I learn something new from that. It depends on the peoples mind set as some people will like to read a big paragraph regarding a topic rather than a short description where as people like me like to get information by reading a short description rather than a long sentences.
I can say truly that I learnt lot of things from these both social networking sites. Just I want to say a small word that it totally depends on you that how you uses the social media which you are using, is a key factor.
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