Facebook enhances intelligence but Twitter diminishes it, claims psychologist.

On Twitter you receive an endless stream of information, but it’s also very succinct, said Dr Alloway. You don’t have to process that information.

Your attention span is being reduced and you’re not engaging your brain and improving nerve connections.

extensive texting was associated with lower IQ scores.

“I challenge each and every one of you to record every utterance that comes out of your mouth (and that of everyone you interact with) for an entire day. And then record every facial expression and gesture. You will most likely find what communications scholars found long ago – people are social creatures and a whole lot of what they express is phatic communication. (Phatic expressions do social work rather than conveying information… think “Hi” or “Thank you”.)”

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Study: Twitter At Least 40 Percent Pointless
http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2009/08/13/study-twitter-at-least-40-percent-pointless

Having seen my friends twitter streams as well as other twitter sources, I’d have guessed 80-90%.

Perhaps my friends just exchange more babble than average.

looking forward to seeing many of you in NYC for Affiliate Summit over the next few days.

@Pat I have the same problem as you, (not a great multi tasker), except that I am easily distracted by something else. So, even though I am focused on something, if I go do something else or something jumps in front of me, it takes me awhile to get back to where I was. I couldn’t tell you the times I have an idea that I thought would work great on my websites in the past, then replied to an email, read something on the internet, answered the phone, etc., and because I hadn’t written anything down or started to work on the new idea, when I’ve come back to think about the idea, it is gone from my mind forever. Heck, I’ve probably already forgotten why I started this comment. I think twitter and facebook both suck, too much noise depending on who you are friends with/follow.

@Sam Still I see great usefulness in Twitter, for one of my websites, I get between 50 and 100 visitors a day, but have almost 2500 followers on twitter because it is about a sport. Another twitter account, about a sports team, has over 1000 followers and lots of clickers, so I have earned a bit with both accounts and will probably experiment with sponsored tweets on both. All of my twitter accounts are obvious about what they are and as long as that subject is what is talked about, I don’t think the ads or affiliate links posted are spammy. Oh, and I just saw the latest post on your new blog about giving up on twitter for friendfeed, are you going to start sounding like Scoble now?

Did anyone see Shoemoneys post on his sponsored tweeting? http://www.shoemoney.com/2009/07/30/how-do-i-make-money-with-twitter-past-present-future/ For some folks 1100 in a day is big, big money, although I’m sure he was earning more than that, as the 1100 was for 4 tweets about a search engine. But, anybody who follows Shoe knows how he is and knows he is trying to make money, ie, they wouldn’t think he is spammy, they just know thats how he is.

@Wayne You are the one that has continually dragged me into stuff, you should be blogging, you should try twitter, you should try facebook, you should try second life, etc, etc. So, I hope I am within throwing distance of you in hell as well. While most I have had fun or been succesful with, twitter and facebook are more annoying to use. But that won’t keep me from trying to make money on twitter, while facebook I think is just going to be for friends as most of the affiliates I have friended on facebook just post links to their blog posts, twitter updates and those get hid pretty quickly.

I wonder now, after answering five emails, two phone calls and checking some stats, if I actually said what I wanted to when I started this comment.