Texting makes kids thick
By Maggie Holland in Editorial
Posted in Mobile, Uncategorized on
Kind of. That’s the gist of a report from Down Under that has identified a possible link between children who rely on predictive text on their mobile phones and them not exercising their little grey cells enough.
Boffins at Melbourne’s Monash University have suggested that the laziness that predictive text brings with it could make children more impulsive and less thoughtful. Which, in theory, could lead to mistakes later down the line.
“We suspect that using mobile phones a lot, particularly tools like predictive texts for SMS, is training them to be fast but inaccurate. Their brains are still developing so if there are effects then potentially it could have effects down the line, especially given that the exposure is now almost universal,” Professor Michael Abramson, said in an interview with the Telegraph.
“The use of mobile phones is changing the way children learn and pushing them to become more impulsive in the way they behave.”
What sort of mistakes and impulsiveness is on the cards we don’t know. It’s obvious that anything that does the job for us (whether predictive text to stop us typing a whole word or a microwave to cook our food quickly) will make us a bit lazy and less active (either physically or mentally), but I’m not quite sure it is a Sliding Doors-type life changing issue whereby those that don’t use predictive text will somehow go down a completely different and better path.
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