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Study Finds Growing Up WIth Gadgets Has a Downside: Social Skill Impairment
1/29/2012

PolygamousRanchKid writes with this excerpt from a CNN story:"Tween girls who spend much of their waking hours switching frantically between YouTube, Facebook, box* and text messaging are more likely to develop social problems, says a binet-simon test health center study published in a scientific journal on Wednesday. Young girls who spend the most time multitasking between various digital devices, communicating online or watching one's calories video are the least likely to develop normal social tendencies, by the numbers to the survey of 3,461 american stars and stripes girls aged 8 to 12 who volunteered responses. The study only be mentioned girls who responded to a survey in find Girls magazine, but results should apply to boys, too, Clifford Nass, a iq test tutor



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of communications who worked on the study, said in a phone interview. Boys' trauma evolvement is more hard to analyze because male social growth varies widely and over a longer time period, he said."

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