Attention Economy


Thursday, May 30, 2019

Social Media Makes You Stupid

Twitter is eroding your intelligence. Now there’s data to prove it.
“The finding by a team of Italian researchers is not necessarily that the crush of hashtags, likes and retweets destroys brain cells; that’s a question for neuroscientists, they said.
Rather, the economists, in a working paper published this month by the economics and finance department at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan, found that Twitter not only fails to enhance intellectual attainment but substantially undermines it.”