Coincidentally, the Congre$$ is doing away with the Congressional Page program.
With all today’s new technologies, it makes sense per the House leaders.. and will save a few young folk from some of the leches in Congre$$ to boot.. unless they tweet or frequent social networking sites.
Facebook has psychological consequences for teens, study finds
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/hottopics/detail?entry_id=94945&tsp=1
By Kelsey Williams, SFGate.com
Since the rise of social media, parents have been concerned with what exactly their kids are doing online. But now, Mashable reports, a study out of California State University Dominguez Hills, suggests it is not what the kids are doing on Facebook, but what Facebook is doing to them psychologically that is a real issue.
Narcissism, aggressive tendencies, lower school performance, anxiety and depression were all cited as side effects in teens who use Facebook on a regular basis.
For the study, Dr. Larry Rosen, a professor of psychology at CSU-Dominguez Hills, observed 300 teens while studying with access to social media and collected findings from 1,000 surveys distributed to urban teenagers.
Rosen shared his findings in his presentation, “Poke Me. How Social Networks Can Both Help and Harm Our Kids” at the 119th annual American Psychological Association convention last weekend in Washington.
Although negatives seemed to outweigh the positives, Rosen also noted some good outcomes of social media use, including heightened actual empathy from those exhibiting “virtual empathy” online.
He also mentioned that socially inhibited teens were able to become less introverted as they used Facebook to learn to “socialize behind the safety of various screens.”
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