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<giggle> 'cuz 'scientists' are the new 'clergy'?
Social networks such as Twitter may blunt people's sense of morality, claim brain scientists.
New evidence shows the digital torrent of information from networking sites could have long-term damaging effects on the emotional development of young people's brains.
A study suggests rapid-fire news updates and instant social interaction are too fast for the 'moral compass' of the brain to process.
The danger is that heavy Twitters and Facebook users could become 'indifferent to human suffering' because they never get time to reflect and fully experience emotions about other people's feelings.
rest of article here:
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...sts.html#
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Social networks such as Twitter may blunt people's sense of morality, claim brain scientists.
New evidence shows the digital torrent of information from networking sites could have long-term damaging effects on the emotional development of young people's brains.
A study suggests rapid-fire news updates and instant social interaction are too fast for the 'moral compass' of the brain to process.
The danger is that heavy Twitters and Facebook users could become 'indifferent to human suffering' because they never get time to reflect and fully experience emotions about other people's feelings.
rest of article here:
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...sts.html#
love all-ways (even the rapid-fire ways),
mem
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Re: Twitter can make you immoral, claim scientists
Wed, May 13, 2009 - 11:29 AMAhahahhahaha! ROFLMAO! Don't you think that scientists should lighten up and play a few video games or something to, like, get over themselves? They might even meet a girlfriend to ease their tensions, just like my son did ~ and that relationship took him to another country and has lasted longer than any of my marriages! Ahahhahahhahahaha!
What is the matter with these psych lab dudes anyway? I don't know about anyone else, but I am quick to emote ~ have to really put on the brakes to stop from saying the first frigging reaction I have a lot of times. I don't do Twitter because I am too verbose, but I IM, and that is usually done w/fewer words than Twitter's max. These guys need to get a life and figure out a cure for cancer or depression or something productive. Sheesh.
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Re: Twitter can make you immoral, claim scientists
Wed, May 13, 2009 - 4:14 PMThe brain geezers are focusing on the wrong websites.
4chan and the other *chans makes one 'immoral'.
Especially /b/. The words "indifferent to human suffering" take on a whole new meaning there. Namely, sociopathy.
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Re: Twitter can make you immoral, claim scientists
Wed, May 13, 2009 - 5:55 PMI'm on Twitter:
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Re: Twitter can make you immoral, claim scientists
Wed, May 13, 2009 - 6:31 PMI've interacted with far more facinating peversion on Tribe...
I'm not playing favorites-
I'm just being fair!
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Re: Twitter can make you immoral, claim scientists
Fri, May 15, 2009 - 5:53 AM"they never get time to reflect and fully experience emotions"
some truth to that statement
using the whole "morality" stance is counter-productive to their arguement though
but I definitley believe that lack of breathing-the-same-air, skin-to-skin (in varying amounts) contact , replaced by digital communication, is terribly detrimental to the soul
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Re: Twitter can make you immoral, claim scientists
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Re: Twitter can make you immoral, claim scientists
Mon, June 1, 2009 - 12:10 PMNot to mention you can get all your TV commercial free, and movies free. Guess that's steeling huh, not very moral...LOL -
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Re: Twitter can make you immoral, claim scientists
Wed, June 17, 2009 - 2:03 PMIran Protests: The Whole World Is Watching, Flickring, Tweeting
www.technewsworld.com/story/I...352.html
Election protests in Iran have reached a fever pitch, and social media technologies like Twitter have led the way in bringing observers around the world firsthand updates of developments. The information being communicated is immediate, raw, hot-blooded, sometimes graphic, and almost as hard to verify as it is to censor.
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Re: Twitter can make you immoral, claim scientists
Wed, June 17, 2009 - 2:07 PMCyber-sympathizers aid Iran protestors in online battle
www.google.com/hostednews...mJvkqL7W_Mg
Cyber-sympathizers from around the world have been battling online to help Iranian protestors dodge censorship, get out news of clashes, and avoid real-world capture.
Pictures, videos, and updates from the streets of Iran continue to pour into social-networking websites such as Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and Flickr despite efforts by Iranian officials to cut off mobile phones and the Internet.
"The revolution may not be televised in Iran, but it may well be tweeted," user 'kaplanmyrth' said Wednesday in one of the concise messages flooding an Iranelection feed at the microblogging service.
Online allies have set up scores of "proxy servers," Internet linked computers that can be used by people inside Iran to get around blocks imposed to stifle the spread of news about demonstrators accusing Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of having stolen the presidential election instead of winning it.
"If everybody sets up proxies that are re-routing Twitter traffic from there, unless they know what your proxies are, they can't block them," said Nitin Borwankar, a US technology consultant specializing in social data mining. -
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Re: Twitter can make you immoral, claim scientists
Wed, June 17, 2009 - 2:11 PMWhy Twitter Leads Coverage Of Iran Protests
news.sky.com/skynews/Hom...906315310777
Twitter has become one of the only sources of information about life inside Iran, with the US state department intervening to keep it online and news organisations mining it for the latest updates.
An easy-to-use microblogging site, where users post short messages, Twitter has been one of the only communications not to fail.
SMS text messaging, mainstream news sites and social networks such as Facebook have all been shut down in Iran, according to citizens there.
But some have remained able to send messages - or Tweets - to a global audience through Twitter.
Tweets can easily be fed onto other websites, meaning that even if the government filtered access to Twitter, it is easier to get around these blocks than it would be for very centralised, data-heavy mainstream sites.
Many of those who still claim to be able to send messages from inside Iran appear to be very technologically savvy and have enlisted the help of those with know-how abroad. -
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How do we regulate the Kiosk?
Wed, June 17, 2009 - 9:27 PMi enjoyed watching all the politics on the iranian election twitter thon
then i read "american government orders' twitter to remain online after they requested a shut down for ""routine site maintenance"
WTFFFF????
routine site maintenance? after everyone else happened to have this too?
and our governement said" nay, please, continue to sew seeds of discontent"
of course we wanted one branch to bloom bloody roses while all the others shew white?
i'm not saying anything about the election
i'm just saying watch out, we may be part of a future where we think we are listening to a regulated channel, but really,
it is just as rigged as the rest
this question of how they are regulated is central to it alll...
and it depends of persona, that is, we each perceive a different level of trustworthy ness to the info we get.
ie, we, none of us, know when something is true.
so....
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Re: How do we regulate the Kiosk?
Sun, June 21, 2009 - 1:31 PM“The qualities that make Twitter seem inane and half-baked are what makes it so powerful,” says Jonathan Zittrain, a Harvard law professor who is an expert on the Internet. That is, tweets by their nature seem trivial, with little that is original or menacing. Even Twitter accounts seen as promoting the protest movement in Iran are largely a series of links to photographs hosted on other sites or brief updates on strategy. Each update may not be important. Collectively, however, the tweets can create a personality or environment that reflects the emotions of the moment and helps drive opinion.
from www.nytimes.com/2009/06/21...henweb.html
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