• Karen von Grabowiecki

    Argee??
    http://mashable.com/2012/04/10/brain-internet-infographic/
    • The Internet Is Ruining Your Brain [INFOGRAPHIC]
      The Internet Is Ruining Your Brain [INFOGRAPHIC]

      Admit it: As you're reading this, you have tunnel vision - that feeling that the world is closing in on you after surfing the Internet for eight straight hours. Web dead head (yes, I made that up) is a growing concern for today's connected generation, which collectively spends 35 billion hours on the Internet every month.

    • Sarah Darwin
      Sarah Darwin
      Love the infographic! Especially about the part 'We use Google so much that it has replaced our brains". Some of it I agree to, but only up to a point. 15 years ago or so, few people had mobiles so everyone memorised 5, 10, 15 phone numbers of their closest friends and family, but with mobiles all that knowledge got outsourced. Keeping in with the phone example, many of the people in our address books were just casual acquaintances. Many of those 'friends' on Facebook are just the same.

      I don't think we need the internet to overload our brains, we can excessively multitask without it in or outside work. The main problem is if your work obliges you to have to do too much at once on or offline.

      As for the last part about the link between heavy internet use and depression, perhaps heavy internet usage is a symptom rather than a cause.

      I'm not saying the way we're bombarded with stimulus is a good thing, I do agree that the internet can have a detrimental affect on our memory, concentration etc, but only if we let it.

      What did you think of it?