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UncategorizedIs Twitter Making Us Immoral?
I don’t think so, but researcher Mary Helen Immordino-Yang thinks otherwise. She makes an argument that has an ounce of truth:
“If things are happening too fast, you may not ever fully experience emotions about other people’s psychological states, and that would have implications for your morality.”
The basic point that she is conveying is that if we have to deal with an avalanche of information (such as the one Twitter might - or not -redound to) we could become somehow less sensitive, and the way we feel about others and ourselves will be modified. She based this asseveration on 13 different studies where test subjects were told a story and they were asked to recall it afterwards.
I agree with the point made by Webware’s Chris Matyszczyk – human people adapt themselves as technology advances. Everybody knows that. This happens for the simple reason that technology cannot adapt to us. If Twitter had posed an overwhelming amount of information that the brain couldn’t have handled, it would have never captured the imagination of so many to begin with. New technology always comes under scrutiny, and that is fair. It is good to see scientists and researchers try to explain some of the ramifications different developments like social networking or micro-blogging can have on life as we know it. But it is a shame when their finds are placed out of context by institutions that condemn anything they can not understand. I hope that is not the case with Immordino-Yang’s study.
Post Tags: Facebook, Micro-blogging, Morality, Online Communities, Social network, Social network service, Technology, Twitter
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