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Infographic

How Social Media Is Ruining Our Minds [Infographic]

by Eric Limer | 2:55 pm, December 14th, 2011

There’s no doubt about it, social media has drastically changed the way we, as humans, interact with each other. The question is, though, is it changing the way, or destroying the way? This infographic, curiously made by the folks at Assisted Living Today, suggests that social networking is shortening our attention spans and rewiring our brains and brings some science along to back it up. It’s worth questioning though, if we’re living in a world where things are making us have a shorter attention span, is that a bad thing? I mean, maybe having a short attention span was only bad before it started becoming a necessity. The world is changing, guys. Maybe we’re just changing with it.

TL;DR It’s an infographic about why you just read the TL;DR instead of the paragraph above.

(Assisted Living Today via Social Times)

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  • victor

    tl;dr

  • Dood

    Would have come across better in text instead of a crappy infographic.

  • Anonymous

    Agreed. This information isn’t really made for an infographic, as there aren’t charts, graphics, etc., just a lot of text. I also kept wanting (and trying) to click on highlighted text, assuming they were links, and being thwarted.

  • Asreal

    I only read the top bit of that very long infographic… am I a victim? :D

  • Corey King

    I’m less concerned with the poor graphical representation then I am with junk science, and extremely poor data research and analysis, that creates causation while comparing apples to automobiles. Case in point: Someone from the website Girlfriend Social posted this on Google Plus and when several people pointed out that it is a spurious correlation that falsely attributes causation AND that the very flawed infographic is based upon nine web-based articles — none of which are the subject of scientific research — the poster cited Wikipedia in her defense and then deleted the negative comments and blocked the complainers … including myself.


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