As social media is changing our brains

On the impact of social media on the human brain has already written a lot of articles, but Despite this almost every new post or video among older across interesting facts New. Tonight we offer you several interesting discoveries, that may even make you one step closer to freedom from this dependence is not very healthy.

I recently conducted a little experiment - gave up reading the news, Facebook and Twitter for a month (just before the New Year). As a result, it became clear that some tasks may take half the time to sleep can be much larger and stronger, even remain a little time to your favorite hobby, to which the earlier hands reached. Advantages proved to be much more than the minuses.

But the greatest, in my opinion, plus - the disappearance of this terrible "mental itch," when you feel uncomfortable with what not to leaf through the hundredth time a tape of social networks and even start to get angry at the fact that so little new posts. It really was beginning to seem like a morbid dependence similar to dependence on cigarettes: a sense of physical and psychological discomfort persists,

Latest Video by AsapSCIENCE gives a very visual scientific explanation for all of these feelings and talks about how social media is changing our brains.

1. From 5 to 10% of users have no control over the amount of time they spend on social networks. This is not entirely psychological dependence, it also has signs of drug dependence. Brain scans of people showed deterioration of parts of the brain, which is observed in drug addicts. Especially degrades the white substance, which is responsible for controlling emotional processes, attention and decision-making. This is because social media award follows almost immediately after the publication of the post or photos, so the brain begins to rebuild itself so that you always want to obtain these awards. And you begin to want more and more and more and more. And you're simply unable to abandon this as a drug.

2. Problems with multitasking. It may seem that those who always sits in social media, or those who constantly switches between work and web sites are much better able to cope with several tasks than those who are used to doing one thing at a time. However, a comparison of these two conditional groups of people was not in favor of the former. Continuous switching between social media work and reduces the ability to filter the interference, and also complicates the processing and storing information.

3. "Ghost call." You've heard that vibrate your phone? Oh, it's probably, SMS message, or come in one of social networks! And, no, empty! Thought? Oh, that vibrated again! Well now certain that something has come! Again it seemed... This is called phantom limb syndrome vibration and is considered a psychological phenomenon. In the course of the study revealed that about 89% of respondents have such feelings at least once in two weeks. Technology start to rebuild our nervous system so that the most ordinary itch in his leg after a mosquito bite is interpreted as a smart phone vibration.

4. Social media are triggers for dopamine release, which is the precursor to obtain the desired compensation. Using MRI, scientists have found that people reward centers in the brain begin to work much active when they begin to talk about their views or express their opinion, than when listen to someone else's. In principle, nothing new, right? But it turns out that during a personal conversation face to face opportunity to express their opinion is about 30-40%, while in virtual conversations on social networks this feature increases to 80%. The result includes a portion of the brain that is responsible for orgasm, love and motivation, which is fueled by such virtual conversations. Especially if you know that you are reading a large number of people. It turns out that our body rewards us for what we are sitting on social networks.

5. Still other studies have shown that partners who first met online, and then We saw each other in real life, like each other much more than those who have an acquaintance happened offline. Perhaps this is due to the fact that you are at least roughly know the preferences and objectives of the other person.