The social networking becomes an important part of the recent life. Facebook and Twitter are famous social networking. Many people use both of them in their regular life. Some people like Facebook more than Twitter and vice versa. The fans of Facebook use it for many purposes such as keep in touch with their friends , know and win various friends and sharing videos , images and ideas. The users of Twitter find that Twitter gives them rapid responses form various people .
Dr Alloway, from the University of Stirling in Scotland claims that Facebook increases the level of intelligence while Twitter reduces it.
Dr Alloway thinks that playing video games like ,Total War series and Sudoku increase your intelligence as the involving with Facebook do.
She claims that stuffing your brain with too much information as the Twitter do, can weaken your working memory.
Dr Alloway and her team made a working memory training program for children aged 11 to 14 at a school in Durham. The results of this program were amazing. Those children show improvement in their IQ level and in the literacy and numeracy tests.
The working memory plays an important rule in remembering and using the information. She thinks that people don’t need too much information to know, but they need to know how to understand the information and to use it in their normal life.
She thinks that Facebook gives a chance to improve your working memory. By working memory you will be able to answer questions and in an impressive way. So any applicants to any job will be able to win it. But the texting nature of Twitter is bad to the working memory. She claims that Twitter reduces the attention span. Whether Dr Alloway claims’ true or not, the use of the different social networking determine the bad and the good effects upon people’s life.
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