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Social media has taken the world
by storm. Facebook, Instagram,
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What's That, Twitter, Tumblr,
Snapchat, YouTube, Messenger,
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LinkedIn and many others are now
household names. But have you
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ever heard of the very first
social media site six degrees.
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It was created in 1997
but closed in 2001. Users of
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six-degrees were able to upload
a profile and make friends with
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other users. When others saw the
potential of this new form of
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media competition was frantic
and soon other companies emerged
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On the first of August 2003
Myspace was launched and quickly
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became the largest social media
site in the world at that time.
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But the giant in social media
began in February 2004. Facebook
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dominates the social media
market with over one and a half
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billion people using it to
connect with friends. If you
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want to succeed in social media
it is said that Instagram is the
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account you much have. With
one billion active users every
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month and 500 million of them
new to Instagram every day it's
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a very powerful medium of
communication. So for many
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people today the use of social
media has become a necessary
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daily activity to connect
with friends, share, create and
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spread information. Most users
spend approximately one to two
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hours each day and they cannot
imagine life without it. So the
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question is how did we survive
before all these forms of social
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media arrived? How much time
are we spending on social media?
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And what is its impact in our
lives? I'm Gary Kent. Join me
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as we navigate through
this amazing digital world.
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I'm sure you've noticed how
attached people are becoming to
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their mobile phones. As soon as
it beeps or tells us we have a
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new message or email we just
can't resist checking it out.
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For many individuals the
majority of most communications
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both personally and
professionally is now by mobile
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phone or email. Unfortunately
there seems to be a down side to
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this form of communication
as it's sometimes easy to
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miscommunicate our messages.
Without the signals you can get
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from face to face interactions
through body language, emotions,
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and exhibited feelings the words
can sometimes seem an unintended
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meaning. Words are singularly
the most powerful force
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available to humanity. We
can choose to use this force
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constructively with words of
encouragement or destructively
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using words of criticism. Words
have power and have the ability
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to help, to heal, to hinder, to
hurt or to harm. Teachers in a
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local high school reportedly
were concerned about the lack of
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conversational skills among some
of their students. So they got
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together and decided to try an
experiment. On a given evening
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the participating team of
students were asked to shut
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down all their devices.
The teacher then placed them
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separately in a real time,
face to face situation with
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individuals they didn't know.
At first the students had a very
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difficult time initiating or
sustaining a conversation. They
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had learned the art of
small talk which is key
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in many professional careers
and in personal and social
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interaction. Later during the
debriefing the teenagers were
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heard to make comments such as
I don't have any trouble texting
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and tweeting but I couldn't
think of a thing to say in
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person or Wow, that was a lot
harder than I expected or I'm
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going to turn off my electronics
for at least an hour a day and
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practice doing some real time
small talk. So what impact is
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all this screen time having
on society? Well we're going to
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find out. Our guest today, Dr.
Arlene Taylor, is going to draw
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back the curtain and help us
the impact screen time has on
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the human brain. Dr.
Arlene Taylor is the founder and
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president of Realizations Inc.
a nonprofit corporation that
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engages in brain function
research. She's the author of
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several popular books related
to brain function, practical
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applications to relationships in
everyday living and creator of
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the Longevity
Lifestyle Matters program.
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Dr. Taylor welcome to our
program today. Social media is a
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relatively new term isn't it?
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And reportedly there's been a
bit of jockeying as individuals
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try to assert rights to that
term. And exactly there has been
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AOL believes it came out of
AOL in the early 1990s when the
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company was developing
what would become AOL Instant
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Messenger. There's so many
definitions for social media
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floating around. One example
goes like this: Social media
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is a term
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that encompasses a smorgasbord
of online media where people are
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talking, participating, sharing
networking and bookmarking
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online with a wide variety
of options from social sharing
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sites such as YouTube
and Instagram through social
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networks such as
LinkedIn and Facebook.
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Social media is huge in this age
of technology but I sometimes
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wonder just how many people
really use social media sites.
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A lot! 2018 data indicate that
there are more than three and
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one-half billion internet users.
Estimates are that social media
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users grow by one new user every
15 seconds. You compare that to
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every 20 seconds in the United
States someone is diagnosed with
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diabetes. Every 15 seconds
there's a new social media user.
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According to statistics from the
Nielsen group internet users in
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the United States spend more
time on Facebook than any other
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website. In Australia nearly
three-fourths of the population
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are active Facebook users with
half the population logging onto
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the site at least once a day. In
the United States more than four
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fifths of the population use
Facebook spending an average of
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20 minutes per day on the site.
And Instagram is second in the
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United States after Facebook.
YouTube is the world's largest
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video network with users
spending upwards of a billion
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hours per day watching.
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What are some of the
up sides to social media?
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Almost anything on this planet
has an up side and a down side.
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Personally I do the majority
of work with my nonprofit
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corporation, Realizations Inc.,
via technology. I have almost
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instant worldwide communication
with anyone else who has a
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computer or mobile phone. Almost
instant access to data, the
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state of the art information
and on and on and on. Reports
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suggest that on the internet
every click, every view and
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every emotion is tracked and
noted somewhere in the form of
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statistics and ordered for
businesses to understand the
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users behavior and be better
able to market their products.
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And there's another upside.
Users get to chat with each
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other online and post pictures
and updates about their lives.
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And individuals who are house
bound or must stay in bed are
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still able to stay connected
with family, with friends by
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social networks.
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In life we typically give up
something to get something. That
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suggests that there can be
a down side to social media
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technology when it's
used inappropriately or out of
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balance as you indicated.
What are some of the potential
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down sides?
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So the short answer is that
the human brain is extremely
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sensitive to the outside world.
Therefore, technology used
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inappropriately or out of
balance can create some real
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problems for the brain.
And again especially for the
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developing brain. Current
studies show that the prefrontal
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cortex of the brain, the part
right behind your forehead, is
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not done, meaning all the
myelination is not complete
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in fiber optics until late
20s and possibly early 30s.
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According to Psychology Today
what a teenager does and is
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exposed to has a large influence
on that teen's future because
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experience and current needs
shape the pruning and sprouting
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process in the brain. When a
brain is born it has way more
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neurons than it actually needs.
And especially during the first
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five years and then again during
the teenage years functions that
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are not utilized the brain just
prunes and gets rid of those
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cells. They're not needed. So
something like being the class
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clown for example can help make
a good salesperson later on. And
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running for class president
will help develop brain skills
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that are needed to run a
business or take on a management
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position. So if the teenager
is playing lots of video games
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these will shape the brain
in such a way that they might
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become an excellent
fighter pilot. But becoming an
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accountant or a researcher will
likely be less possible. Being
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exposed to negative influences
on social media also shapes the
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brain and the future of the
adolescent. It can sow the seeds
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of addictive behaviors and
interpersonal conflict. Research
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has shown that in order to
develop effective socialization
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skills the brain needs
real time real life face to face
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experiences. Practicing striking
up a conversation with another
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individual and setting them at
ease through small talk When the
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outside world primarily consists
of Facebook, email, LinkedIn,
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texting, tweeting and surfing
the net as it's called, looking
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up things on the internet
exposure and practice of face to
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face communication is reduced.
Some studies can show that
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talking in cyber shorthand, as
it is called, most of the time
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can make it less likely that
that brain will be able to walk
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into a crowd of complete
strangers and initiate an
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enjoyable conversation face to
face. Remember the teenage brain
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is not done yet. It is rather
a self-absorbed and somewhat
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narcissistic chunk of biological
real estate as in it's all about
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me. Maturing the teenage brain
is a learned process designed
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to move it away from
narcissistic behaviors to more
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balanced and functional adult
behaviors. This is a learning
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process. It is not an
automatic genetic process. So an
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unbalanced use of technology
during adolescent years can
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interfere with the brain's
actual maturation process.
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Unfortunately if the teenage
brain fails to mature and move
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to more balanced behaviors it
tends to continue narcissistic
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it's all about me behaviors into
adulthood. The danger is that
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the antisocial narcissistic
adult may begin to exhibit
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sociopathic behaviors.
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I suppose time spent on social
media sites can be an issue as
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well.
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Studies have shown recently that
those who spend three or more
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hours per day on Facebook or
other social media sites tend to
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occupy self with self. They
are at high risk for becoming
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restless, anxious and depressed
as they compare what was posted
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with what they personally
possess. They tend to use lower
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brain functions from the first
or second layers of the brain
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over higher brain functions in
the third layer, the neocortex.
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And they tend to exhibit
decreased empathy and compassion
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When you can't speak or
hear another person it becomes
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easier to be less embarrassed
and less inhibited and less
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concerned about what other
people even think. It becomes
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easier to reveal things about
yourself that you wish later on
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you had not done and/or said
things to or about other people
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that you might never do in
person. Really social media can
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take over your life in a Nano
second if you aren't careful.
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Just anticipating connecting
with someone via social media
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can trigger the release of
oxytocin as well as dopamine
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the feel-better chemical. People
have actually become so involved
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with social media that they've
dropped out of school, quit
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their job lived on the
street and really checked out of
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reality living in favor of just
surfing their favorite sites
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day and night. Many businesses
frown on employees checking
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social media frequently when
they're supposed to be doing the
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company's work, the work they
are being paid to do. And most
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unfortunately cyber harassment
and bullying behaviors and other
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negative types of communication
have invaded social media.
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Suicide attempts and
suicide successes have occurred
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repeatedly and been reported
due to cyber harassments and
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bullying. And then there are the
unsafe connections that are made
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over the internet that have
sometimes resulted in abductions
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even murders. Some individuals
have even created a fake
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identity known as a sock
puppet in an attempt to avoid
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accountability for what they
spew out over the internet or in
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an attempt to remain anonymous.
The problem with this is that
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great damage can be done to
susceptible individuals and a
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big downside involves something
called gas lighting. This term
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was picked up from a 1944 movie
in which a man uses various
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techniques in an attempt to make
his wife start wondering about
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her own sanity so that he could
put her in an institution, have
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her institutionalized. The
author of the book Gas lighting
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pointed out that this tactic is
commonly seen among dictators,
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narcissists, abusers, and
cult leaders who gain power over
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targets by destabilizing
people's mental states and
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making them doubt their
own perceptions of reality.
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Unfortunately the practice of
gaslighting is common on social
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media sites where the
perpetrator may disseminate
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inaccuracies, outright
lies and disinformation.
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I read that some communication
skills have been lost due to
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social media.
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When I talk about social
media. I like to talk about face
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to face communication especially
that learned ability to put
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people instantly at ease using
small talk especially when the
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individuals do not know each
other. According to some studies
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this skill is rapidly
disappearing. I have sometimes
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talked about with you the fact
that there can be two people
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sitting in a restaurant and
they're each on their electronic
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devices with hardly any verbal
communication. I even asked a
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young couple about that once.
And they looked at me like I was
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from another planet. They
replied that they were talking
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to each other, they were
communicating, they were just
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doing it via their devices. But
there was no eye contact, there
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were no facial expressions,
there was no laughter, just
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typing with their thumbs. That's
not face to face real time
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interaction with one brain
with another. And then there is
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phubbing. Do you know the term
phubbing Studies have shown that
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ignoring someone in a social
situation to look at ones phone
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threatens peoples fundamental
need to belong. It's typically
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perceived as a form of social
exclusion, making others feel
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invisible, eroding their self
esteem. They actually feel less
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important than whomever the
other person is communicating
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with electronically. Phubbing
has been linked with poor
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communication and lower
relationship satisfaction.
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Become of that some
organizations require that
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social media electronics must
be turned off during important
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business meetings and committee
interactions. So how much more
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important to turn that
off when you are working on a
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communication relationship with
people you love, with family
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members and good friends. My
brain's opinion is that even a
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positive thing taken to the
extreme or used out of balance
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can become a negative. Social
media is one of those things.
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It points out the need to
practice disconnecting from
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social media for some period of
time every single day. This can
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cause the user to build skills
related not only to delaying
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gratification and delaying
gratification is critical to
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almost every type of success,
but also raising the person's
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level of emotional intelligence
judged to be worth 80 percent
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of a person's overall success in
life. So in life usually if not
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always you must give up
something to get something.
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Maturity involves evaluating
what you will get versus what
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you will have to give up when
making a decision. So with some
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knowledge and forethought
you can attain the benefits
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social media and technology
offer while at the same time
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avoiding creating
problems for your brain.
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Dr. Taylor it's been a pleasure
having you on our program today
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and we're so grateful for all
the important information you've
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shared with us.
00:22:56.24\00:22:57.57
Once again, it's a pleasure
to chat with you about brain
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function and I encourage people
to take the time to do person to
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person, brain to brain
communication. It's a different
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type of
connection from social media.
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Social media has certainly taken
the world by storm and now it's
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hard to imagine a world without
the internet, our smart phones
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emails and instant communication
In fact, it doesn't matter where
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you go in this world people seem
to be attached to their phones.
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The need and desire to
communicate is not new to the
00:23:43.12\00:23:48.02
21st century. Way back in the
first century the apostle Paul
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wrote some wise words to the
people in Thessalonica. Now they
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didn't have social media
back then but the principles of
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communication is the
same. Here's what Paul wrote in
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1 Thessalonians
chapter five and verse 11:
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Here Paul is exhorting the
people to only say kind words,
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words that are affirming and
helpful and to avoid unkind and
00:24:21.89\00:24:26.19
discouraging words. There's
an old Yiddish saying that says:
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Once words have been spoken or
sent via social media we cannot
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call them back. Today the
powerful platform of social
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media gives us instant words.
Sometimes on social media words
00:24:49.38\00:24:54.72
may be sent off quickly, words
that you might not think of
00:24:54.76\00:24:59.03
using if you are communicating
in person face to face. Let's
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choose to only say or write
words that will not discourage,
00:25:04.00\00:25:08.37
disempower or be negative. Let's
follow the apostle Paul's advice
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in Ephesians chapter four and
verse 29. Here's what he wrote:
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What a difference it would make
in our world if only kind and
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intelligent words were said
in person or communicated by
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technology. If our comments were
positive, helpful and empowering
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So the question then is
What aspects of social media are
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positive and provide positive
outcomes? And what aspects are
00:25:52.91\00:25:56.85
negative and
provide negative outcomes?
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If you would like to know more
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If you've enjoyed our journey
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and the impact our words
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sure to join us again next week
when we will share another of
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life's journeys together. And
now I'd like to invite you to
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join me as we pray.
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Dear heavenly Father, thank
you for giving us the ability to
00:27:46.33\00:27:52.60
communicate and to share out
thoughts and feelings. We ask
00:27:52.63\00:27:57.11
that you give us wisdom as
we choose our words and may they
00:27:57.14\00:28:01.78
always be positive, helpful and
empowering and most of all to
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reflect your love for us.
In Jesus' name we pray, Amen.
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