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In my books, noted below, I often speak of the need for Netiquette to make communications and tone clear and lucid. This entails greater thought and consideration. The breakdown of good communication is sometimes caused by email and text methods. Even though these may become a primary means of communication, at least they will have positive attributes which will not be manifested in ways the article below refers.
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Mar 25
Does Social Media Encourage Shallow Thinking?
In his 2010 best-seller The Shallows, Nicholas Carr
warned us that habitual Internet usage may have serious side effects.
Specifically, he argues frequent use of social media such as texts and tweets
encourages shallow thinking, and this decreases our ability to engage in
contemplation or introspection, online or off.
While not everyone bought this thesis,
a pair of Canadian psychologists, Logan Annisette and Kathryn Lafreniere of the University
of Windsor, decided it was interesting enough to test. They report in the
journal Personality and Individual Differences that Carr just
may be right.
In a study of 149
Canadian undergraduates, they found “participants who frequently texted, or
used social media, were less likely to engage in reflective thought.” What’s
more, they also “placed less emphasis on moral life goals,” which suggests they
haven’t cultivated a sense of meaning that extends much beyond popularity.
If Facebook and
Twitter are interfering with that learning process, we have a problem.
While the results are far from definitive proof, they’re
cause for concern, particularly because participants were “in the midst of
their academic careers,” a period when life goals are solidified, and deep
concentration is a must.
The participants — 129 women, 19 men, and one
transgender person — reported the average number of text messages they send and
receive each week, as well as the number of times they log onto Facebook,
Twitter, and Instagram, and the amount of time they spend on each social media
site.
They also took tests designed to reveal their
personality traits, their goals in life, and their tendency to engage in
self-reflection. They were asked to rate statements such as “I love to meditate
on the nature and meaning of things,” and “I love exploring my inner self,” on
a five-point scale from “strongly disagree” to “strongly agree.”
“Consistent with the ‘shallowing’
hypothesis, lower reflectiveness emerged as a significant predictor of social
media usage,” the researchers report. In addition, “students who frequently
texted, or used ultra-brief social media, placed greater importance on ‘morally
shallow’ life goals,” such as those linked to “image and hedonism.”
Annisette and Lafreniere concede it’s “entirely
possible” that the correlational chain runs in the other direction, with
shallow people being more attracted to quick-hit social media. But the
possibility that tweeting and texting encourages cursory thinking is a
troubling one, especially given a 2009 studythat found
“students’ use of reflective thinking was related significantly to their
academic performance.”
One could go ever farther and suggest that learning how
to think critically is why we go to college in the first place. If Facebook and
Twitter are interfering with that learning process, we have a problem:
#dumbingourselvesdown.
Findings is a daily column by Pacific
Standard staff writer Tom Jacobs, who scours the psychological-research
journals to discover new insights into human behavior, ranging from the origins
of our political beliefs to the cultivation of creativity.
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