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Yesterday the Daily Mail reported that the volume of online content, driven by social media, could have long-term damaging effects on the emotional development of young people’s brains. The author, Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, a researcher at the Brain and Creativity Institute at the University of Southern California, said:

“For some thoughts, especially moral decision-making about other people’s social and psychological situations, we need to allow for adequate time and reflection”.

It seems the constant flow of real time information from Twitter, FriendFeed and Facebook is too fast for people to process effectively. More...

Interesting post from Matt J. McDonald over at A New Marketing blog on social media:

"I like Wikipedia's definition of social media and I think it’s accurate, if slightly long winded. But if someone asked me what social media is, personally I’d reply with “Social Media is any new web tool or technology that connects people.”

I’ve been thinking about it a little more and essentially, all social media can be broken down into 3 simple categories.

Socially Created Content
A lot of what comes to mind when people think “social media” is really just the Socially Created Content piece. More...