I just read an article called “So, what does your teenager's brain on Google look like?” This article was in the Star Tribune. Is America on the World Wide Web to much? Gary Small, a psychiatrist at UCLA argues so. He and many other scientists have been researching how the brain is reacting to all the exposure to the web that Americans are getting. He clams that too much exposure can lead to a lack in social skills. With the lack of face to face conversations that people are having the mind starts to drift away from social interaction. An example he gave of this happening was reading peoples facial expressions in a simple conversation. In the domino effect of things it has been proven that the depression rate in young adults is skyrocketing because of the lack in social skills. Is this an unfixable problem? That question has yet to have been answered though many parents are looking harder for it every year.
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