Brains of excessive INTERNET users constantly plugged in and crave the use of the web shows similarities to alcohol and drug addicts. Similarly excessive use of social media can cause information overload leading to memory loss. Please take a look at the following PDF attachment.
Technology is changing our brains as well as our lives. If you’re reading this, it’s likely that you’re staring into a screen. Our inability to look away from our tablets, smartphones and social networking platforms is changing the way we process information and perceive the world. In one Gallup Panel survey, 52 percent of smartphone owners reported checking their mobile devices a few times an hour or more. Data confirms that young people are even more wired: More than seven in 10 young smartphone users check their device a few times an hour or more often, and 22 percent admit to looking at it every few minutes.
The digital age is transforming our behaviour when we limit our communication to 140 characters and use emojis to express our emotions. When we’re bored, we simply reach for our gadgets.
Five ways that modern technology is impacting our brains and our lives.
https://www.samuelmerritt.edu/news/2017/5-ways-technology-altering-our-brains
Brains of excessive INTERNET users constantly plugged in and crave the use of the web shows similarities to alcohol and drug addicts. Similarly excessive use of social media can cause information overload leading to memory loss. Please take a look at the following PDF attachment.
As for technology there are many benefits but at the same time have harmful effects on human health, especially the brain because of the vibrations and radiation that cause tumors "cancerous
Yes! Technology is harming our brains. As an undergraduate student in University of Nigeria, my MTH 111 professor could solve complex mixtures of Division, Multiplication, Addition and Subtraction problems than any of us students using the calculator. That was when I started fearing that something was wrong. Now, my students cannot even think properly. They get distracted too easily, cognitive learning is almost completely absent. Preference is given to gadgets and surprisingly, most unwary parents encourage it. Emissions from vibrations of cellular phones and the direct effect on brain cells have earlier been reported. Technology is making users slow thinkers besides exposure to diseases.
There is scientific research confirming the effects of technology and its impact on the human mind with the evidence and the results of a scientific study, done by McGill University, and found that drivers using GPS maps, instead of relying on their ability to identify trends, And gray matter activity in the brain area responsible for supporting and strengthening memory. A 2011 study, published in the journal Journal of Science, confirmed that people have problems remembering when they know the information can be referenced in the device, but according to the study, the problem extends to the great knowledge of life. The site explained that the lack of information gathering in the mind and linking and analysis, makes it unable to analyze and develop the culture, and the ability to realize thought and mental advancement. "The brain, with technology, has a problem distinguishing between real and fake information," he said. A study at Stanford University found that students were finding problems distinguishing between news articles and advertising articles, even if they were explicitly written as advertisements. While another study of the same university revealed that a smartphone and technology trader finds it difficult to distinguish between what is important and what is not important. It quickly facilitates distraction and deception.
Technology has great benefits but also disadvantages and it depends on how we use technology
Technology is mandatory requirement for society, but people misuse it. People apply this technology in various field in wrong manner.
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