Forgive me for trolling a bit, but I read this and much Schadenfreude was had at the expense of Tracy Alloway.

http://scienceroll.com/2009/09/07/does- … ur-memory/

"At this year’s British Science Festival,  Tracy Alloway, a psychologist from Stirling University, said the following:

    'Some examples of what can hurt or harm working memory include things like Twitter. When you’re receiving an endless stream of information when you’re a ‘tweeter’, it’s also very succinct, so there’s no need to process or manipulate that information, it’s not a dialogue unlike something like Facebook where you might be updating your status and so on.'"

Last edited by ruiner (2009 September 11, 7:32 pm)