New Study proves that e-mail, SMS, and tweet, and status updates may damage mental health. It is said, modern technology can damage the mind because we are bombarded with too much information.The rise of smartphones make us become more proficient (multitasking) like being able to switch attention to a lot of writing sepertu e-mail and tweet.
However, evidence suggests handle multiple sources of information could undermine our ability to filter out irrelevant data and prioritize what is important, according to the Daily Mail reports.
Researchers at Stanford University in California before finding that multitasking can inhibit long-term memory. Now, a team from the University of California (San Francisco) have concluded that multitasking also can inhibit memory performance in the short term, especially among older adults.
According to the San Francisco Chronicle, the scientists found that those who are accustomed to multitasking is easily distracted by irrelevant information.
Teenagers now dikatahui spend an average of 7 hours and 38 minutes in the use of media. But because they use more than one medium at a time, they are estimated to absorb about 10 hours and 45 minutes of content within 24 hours.
The combination of technologies that endanger even have made some scientists took the initiative to do a 'diet of technology' in an effort to prevent information overload.