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Tweets Take the Heat for Morally Confused By daynamarcum

Apr 15, 2009

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Twitter Leads to Immorality? C'mon!

Source: ReadWriteWeb

Apr 14, 2009

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Yesterday we heard Fox News reporting that Facebook may be responsible for lower GPA scores and now today a new study comes to light claiming that rapid-fire media - like that of Twitter for instance - can actually impact our moral compass. In fact, the study says the fast-moving nature of some online social spaces may not provide us with the time we as humans need to feel higher emotions like admiration and compassion.

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Yesterday's study about Facebook's impact on GPA scores was not a conclusive, comprehensive report. Instead, it was simply a set of preliminary discoveries that Ohio State researcher Aryn Karpinski said could be looked into deeper. In fact, she asserts that most media reports overstate her findings - she just found a connection and more should be done to study the matter. "What I found is so exploratory -- people need to chill out," she was quoted as saying.

But right on the heels of that news - exploratory or not - comes another report that may even be more damaging: social media could lead

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Blog Dudes,

Apr 15, 2009

Perhaps someone should commission a report on the insidious thought-control perpetrated by corporate-owned media ... but then they would never report it would they . . .