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Study: Multitasking hinders youth social skills

Tween girls who spend much of their waking hours switching frantically between YouTube, Facebook, television and text messaging are more likely to develop social problems, says a Stanford University study published in a scientific journal on Wednesday.

Paul Higgins: Not sure about cause and effect here. Do children who have less social skills use more technology or vice versa. Worth looking at though and it sort of makes sense that if we are reducing interaction with people generally that social skills are less developed.

Full Story: CNN

Posted at 3:27am and tagged with: technology, tech, cognitive, social, multitasking,.

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