{"id":1396,"date":"2016-08-08T21:12:45","date_gmt":"2016-08-08T21:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/social.coldstreams.com\/?p=1396"},"modified":"2016-08-08T21:12:45","modified_gmt":"2016-08-08T21:12:45","slug":"research-finds-that-social-media-rots-teen-brains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2016\/08\/08\/research-finds-that-social-media-rots-teen-brains\/","title":{"rendered":"Research finds that social media rots teen brains"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Analyzing the test results showed that students who frequently used social networking sites like <a href=\"http:\/\/hothardware.com\/tags\/facebook\">Facebook<\/a> or apps like <a href=\"http:\/\/hothardware.com\/tags\/snapchat\">Snapchat<\/a> ended up wasting their brain cells, scoring on average 20 points lower in math, reading and science compared to those who didn\u2019t partake in the online \u201csocial scene.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/hothardware.com\/news\/research-suggests-gamers-get-better-grades\">Research Suggests Gamers Get Better Grades, While Social Sites Rot Your Brain<\/a><\/em><br \/>\nHmmmmm &#8230;. If you, say, wanted to control a population, you would use social media propaganda &#8230; with the added benefit that your target audience is getting dumber by the day. Hmmmm&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Analyzing the test results showed that students who frequently used social networking sites like Facebook or apps like Snapchat ended up wasting their brain cells, scoring on average 20 points lower in math, reading and science compared to those who didn\u2019t partake in the online \u201csocial scene.\u201d Source: Research Suggests Gamers Get Better Grades, While Social Sites Rot Your Brain Hmmmmm &#8230;. If you, say, wanted to control a population, you would use social media propaganda &#8230; with the added&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2016\/08\/08\/research-finds-that-social-media-rots-teen-brains\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,42,46,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-propaganda-methods","category-social-media","category-stupidity","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}