too much internet use 'can damage teenagers brains'

[bcbm]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2015196/Too-internet-use-damage-teenagers-brains.html

[A Revolutionary Tool]

Explains a lot...Fuck it.

[L.A.P.]

But this is when they play games and such. I mainly read and listen to music on the internet. When I got my computer in sixth grade, my reading level went from 6 to 12.

[MarxSchmarx]

once upon a time, they said the same thing about rock'n'roll.

[The Dark Side of the Moon]

Once apon a time, they also said the same thing about TV(unfortunately its true)

[o well this is ok I guess]

Researchers took MRI brain scans from 18 university students, aged 19, who spent eight to 13 hours a day playing games online, six days a week. Uhhhhhh

[Impulse97]

Researchers took MRI brain scans from 18 university students, aged 19, who spent eight to 13 hours a day playing games online, six days a week.

Yea, this pretty much invalidates the whole article and this thread. Not typical usage by teens, especially for the communerds who spend all of their time on the internetbutts reading Marx and such actually learning shit.

[Princess Luna]

Wait are they saying being online or [B]playing online games[B] causes brain damage? While i call bullshit on both, the former has at least 62.4% more bullshit than the latter. I think its all about age, 40 years from now the same people who spent 12 hours on the internet in 2011 will be ranting about how "holograms are ruining our youth!"

[o well this is ok I guess]

Yea, this pretty much invalidates the whole article and this thread. Not typical usage by teens, especially for the communerds who spend all of their time on the internetbutts reading Marx and such actually learning shit. It's more than just atypical.

It's like coming to the conclusion that keyboards are a danger to your health by beating you over the head with one.

[Octavian]

Researchers took MRI brain scans from 18 university students, aged 19, who spent eight to
Why are single studies the authority on everything? Especially ones as flawed as this.

[Dr Mindbender]

think i'm seeing a trend here with bcbm's S&E threads.

[tracher999]

its all bulshit you get it:cursing:

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

think i'm seeing a trend here with bcbm's S&E threads.

What's even more disturbing is where he's getting these stories from. The last one was from the Torygraph, this one is from the Daily "I'm not racist but" Mail (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eBT6OSr1TI). They love these kinds of stories because it appeals to their conservative Little England-ism.

They also quote from Baroness Susan Greenfield (who'da thunk it? A nobby nob telling us what's good for us. Sometimes I think we haven't moved far enough beyond feudalism in this stupid little country!), whose record on these matters is less than stellar (http://www.badscience.net/2009/05/professor-baroness-susan-greenfield-cbe/).

Also, a slight shrinkage in brain matter is not the same thing as a loss of function (which as far as I could tell, wasn't measured in the study, only "brain shrinkage"). Plenty of people are able to function with bits of their brain entirely missing, up to and including an entire hemisphere.

[HarperHater]

Too much of anything is generally bad for you. The internet, however allows you to do so many different things such as reading, listening to music, watching videos, chatting, writing, etc.

Playing 13 hours of video games everyday will no doubt ruin your life, but the internet would not.

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

By the way, I'm not saying it's healthy to spend nearly every day sat on one's arse playing World of Warcraft and stuffing Cheetos down one's gullet, but the problem in this instance is not a shrinking brain but an expanding gut.

[bcbm]

think i'm seeing a trend here with bcbm's S&E threads.
heres all my s&e threads from the last month whats the pattern
One in three 'overwhelmed by technology' (http://www.revleft.com/vb/showthread.php?t=157599) army's 2.7 billion dollar cloud computing system doesn't work (http://www.revleft.com/vb/showthread.php?t=157602) is pornography driving men crazy? (http://www.revleft.com/vb/showthread.php?t=157669) starvation returns to the horn of africa (http://www.revleft.com/vb/showthread.php?t=157443) us orders news blackout over crippled nebraska nuclear power plant (http://www.revleft.com/vb/showthread.php?t=156761) http://www.revleft.com/vb/revleft/misc/tag.png the end of the space age (http://www.revleft.com/vb/showthread.php?t=157326) yellowstone river oil spill outrages montana residents (http://www.revleft.com/vb/showthread.php?t=157450) warming ocean could melt ice faster than thought (http://www.revleft.com/vb/showthread.php?t=157446) europe stifles drivers in favor of mass transit and walking (http://www.revleft.com/vb/showthread.php?t=157093) biofuels land grab in kenya's tana delta fuels talk of war (http://www.revleft.com/vb/showthread.php?t=157383) humans become 'pets' in the rise of the machines: apple co-founder (http://www.revleft.com/vb/showthread.php?t=156004) gov't: no quick fix for leaky nuclear reactors (http://www.revleft.com/vb/showthread.php?t=156789) a warming planet struggles to feed itself (http://www.revleft.com/vb/showthread.php?t=155946) shocking state of seas threatens mass extinction (http://www.revleft.com/vb/showthread.php?t=156697) ancient world dictionary finished (http://www.revleft.com/vb/showthread.php?t=155942)


What's even more disturbing is where he's getting these stories from.

google news lists lots of different news sources. if an article is wrong its all the better to sharpen your daggers on

[Dr Mindbender]

heres all my s&e threads from the last month whats the pattern

The pattern is that the theme of your posts seem to imply by in large a suspicion and/or hostility towards technology in general by pasting links to pseudo scientific or politically partisan articles claiming what the evil technology of the week is. Case in point, nuclear power, space exploration and now the internet being the recent whipping boys. Since you seldom post your own stance we're left to draw our own conclusions though.



google news lists lots of different news sources. if an article is wrong its all the better to sharpen your daggers on

His point is that your sources by in large, seem to come almost exclusively from right wing tabloids. As a revolutionary leftist its a flawed idea to back up your point by using the propaganda of the enemy.

[Dogs On Acid]

I'm brain dead.

[bcbm]

The pattern is that the theme of your posts seem to imply by in large a suspicion and/or hostility towards technology in general by pasting links to pseudo scientific or politically partisan articles claiming what the evil technology of the week is.

i'd agree that not all of the sources are objective or scientific, but that doesn't mean there is nothing of interest in them. by and large though, i'd say the only "pattern" is that i post on a wide range of scientific issues. most of the articles have nothing to do with technology.


Case in point, nuclear power,

yes why would leftists be interested in potential coverup of a problem in a nuclear power plant unless they were against technology?


space exploration

the article was about the decline in space exploration, not an attack on it. also:


i would like to see more space exploration


and now the internet being the recent whipping boys.

i don't think the idea that excessive use can be problematic is particularly "out there"


Since you seldom post your own stance we're left to draw our own conclusions though.

here's something you might want to try drawing a conclusion about instead of what my posts mean: people are more riled up by an article that (barely) condemns the internet than starvation and resource wars in africa, pollution of the yellowstone and dire conditions in our oceans.




His point is that your sources by in large, seem to come almost exclusively from right wing tabloids.

which is demonstratively false- see above list.


As a revolutionary leftist its a flawed idea to back up your point by using the propaganda of the enemy.

this assumes i am posting to back up a point. maybe i post articles because they are interesting, even to leftists, not necessarily because i agree or support what the article is talking about?

[CommieTroll]

Researchers took MRI brain scans from 18 university students, aged 19, who spent eight to 13 hours a day playing games online, six days a week.

I play a lot of games online but I just don't see how its physically possible to play video games that much. Thats CoD addiction for you :laugh:

[Tablo]

I actually like some of the articles bcbm has been posting. Even if some of them are easy to disprove I like the challenge.

[The Man]

I really learned a lot about Socialism and Communism on RevLeft, and Marxists.org.. I say that it helped my brain.