Killing you Socially

Social networks have been vastly growing over the past 5 or so years. In a New York Times article I read about how some researchers fear that these social networking sites are having a negative affect on people. The article written, by Robert Mackey, describes how one researcher from Oxford fears that social networking is making people revert back to the state of being a baby.

This is described by researcher Susan Greenfield. She says that social networks are making people revert back to baby mentallity and need constant reassurance of who they are and that they exist. She says people are having smaller attention spans which is scary to think about. The article goes on to talk about how other researchers have found that actual face to face conversation may be biologically better for you than face to screen. For instance people with contact with actual people are healthier then loners.


Here is a interview with one of the researchers talking about the effects of social networking .