Do clocks change your brain? Do books change your brain? Does TV change your brain? Does the internet change your brain? Does social media change your brain? Yes. Of course they do. Everything does.
Depends on question interpretation. If you're looking for biological effects contingent on neuroplasticity or something, it's a lot of "meh." But, they all powerfully affect your behavioral repertoire and information environment, so I tend to think they are 'yeses'.
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Oh haha. I think that's the thing I want to spend more time doing: properly partitioning the effects into desirable and not so much. And, there are desirable ones! Without twitter, I'd have fewer conversations with smart people, as I'm doing exactly now ;)
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Yes they affect you! In ways you want? Not so much. What I want is the information without the deformation.
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Yea, I have that feeling, too. But, I think there are ways to reform it that don't require twitter's cooperation (which we'll never get.)
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