Recent article about "Social Networking"

This next blog is just a quick few words about an article that I found in The Daily Telegraph on October 19th written by Susan Greenfield about Social Networking. I think these words relate very much to my last blog so I hope you will find it interesting. These are just a few paragraphs from her article.
"The reason that mankind is so successful is that our brains have evolved to adapt to our environment. So it follows that if you use a computer for many hours a day and develop an obsessional cyber- life, then the brain will obligingly adapt, too".

"Evidence of a link between spending too much time staring at computer screens and physical changes in the brain that lead to attention and behaviour problems is accumulating. As with cancer and smoking in the 1950s, you start off by seeing a trend, and that is what makes you suspect that there might be a casual link".

The thing is, harmful evidence is growing of prolonged computer use causing behaviour problems which can't be concluded yet, as just one study is not enough to end this problem. However can we wait 10, or even 20 years?

Baroness Greenfield is professor of synaptic pharmacology at Lincoln College, Oxford.


I'd find it very interesting to hear any of your comments.

The First Blog

So I'm finally going ahead with ‘my first blog’!

All I want to say is how I really enjoyed the first lecture yesterday 4/10 and how interesting it was to listen and debate about remixing data. I feel that getting the balance right with our technological world is an important issue. It’s a question that I myself cannot answer so if anyone thinks they have any comments then fire away! The point is technology can be so useful at times and yet so harmful at others.

Do we as a country use it too much to the point where our children will be going to nursery at the age of 4 and being asked to look at a computer, when they could be outside learning games and drawing pictures?

Are we destroying our social atmosphere by chatting on Facebook instead of having a coffee with a friend?

Have a great week!