Excessive Use of Social Media may Affect Human Memory

TechnoparkToday.com>> How much time you spend daily with social media ?   A recent study revealing that people who are spending too much time surfing social media may harm their memories, including missing of important information from mind.

In the age of regular information updates may result in information overload.  So, instead of spending excessive time browsing social media, go off line regularly.  Erik Fransen, computer science professor and researcher from Stockholm’s KTH Royal Institute of Technology, doing research focusing on short term memory and treatment ways of diseased neurons, said that a brain exposed to a typical session on social media browsing can easily become hobbled by information overload and resulting less information gets registered in your memory.

“Working memory enables us to filter out information and find what we need in the communication. It enables us to work online and store what we find online, but it’s also a limited resource.  The brain is made to go into a less active state, which we might think is wasteful; but memory consolidation, and transferring information into memory takes place in this state. When we max out our active states with technology equipment, we remove from the brain part of the processing .”Erik Fransen said.