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Some might dismiss as alarmist the warnings of neuroscientist Susan Greenfield about social networking turning kids’ brains to mush. My worry is she might be right. It’s naïve to believe that the unprecedented, seismic changes in the way kids spend their time and interact with each other will have no effects on their long-term outlook […]
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News this morning that social networking sites could be harming people’s health has suddenly torn my loyalties. On the one hand, you’d be hard pushed to argue with Dr Aric Sigman’s claims that a lack of direct social interaction could have wide-ranging biological effects, including cancer, strokes, heart disease and dementia. On the other hand, […]
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What would life be like without Facebook? There are millions of people who would gasp in horror at the thought of not being able to tell the world what they’re currently up to. The social networking site, which celebrates its fifth birthday today, has infested the lives of so many online addicts – young […]
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I love Facebook and I’d certainly be one of the thousands of people joining an “I’m ****** off that work has banned Facebook” group if I were to be separated from my beloved profile. Don’t get me wrong (boss!), I’m not on it all the time, but it’s a quick and easy way of keeping […]
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