Experts: FB, Twitter Users Need Reassurance

A generation of youngsters need constant reassurance about their own image

From James Orr, telegraph.co.uk

Repeated exposure to social networking sites has left users with an “identity crisis”, similar to a toddler saying: "Look at me, Mummy, I’ve done this."

Baroness Greenfield, professor of pharmacology at Oxford University, believes the growth of internet “friendships” - as well as greater use of computer games - could effectively rewire the brain.

The effect could lead to a reduced concentration span, a need for instant gratification and the inability to make eye contact during conversations.

More than 750million people across the world now regularly use Facebook to share photographs and videos of their movements and thoughts.

Millions have also signed up to Twitter, the ‘micro-blogging’ service that lets members circulate short text and picture messages about their lives.

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