Negative Impact of the internet on Minds of Youngsters
Monday, March 1st, 2010
Constant use of the internet to search for relevant information has affected the way young minds are accessing and assimilating information. This was proved by a recent research on the subject.
The study has shown that young people utilised less time and fewer web pages to research answers for a set number of questions than compared to older minds. Also nearly forty percent of the younger group used three or less web pages to complete the assignment whereas the older minds went back to the same page more than once and also sifted through almost double the number of web pages to find suitable sources.
The conclusions were drawn from analysis of the research patterns of hundred participants aged twelve to eighteen. Experts concluded that internet promotes associative thinking- the tendency to quickly move from one source of information to the other rather than concentrate on one source. It is because of this that young students lack focus, which quite an undesirable development.
Professor David Nicholas of University College London stated that this unhealthy habit could be attributed to the system of information classification online, which depends on interlinking different pages. More detailed information about this study will be presented in the final episode of a programme aired by BBC2 titled Virtual Revolution. This programme, as the name suggests, analyses the impact of the internet on our lives.
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