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Beware! Retweeting can hamper your memory
Retweeting or sharing information on the micro-blogging site can actually make things worse for you as it creates a "cognitive overload" that interferes with learning and retaining what you've just seen, researchers report.
According to the team from Cornell University in the US, that "overload" can spill over and diminish performance in the real world.
"Most people don't post original ideas any more. You just share what you read with your friends," said Qi Wang, professor of human development at Cornell.
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"But they don't realise that sharing has a downside. It may interfere with other things we do," he warned.
Wang and colleagues in China conducted experiments showing that "retweeting" interfered with learning and memory, both online and off.
The experiments were conducted at Beijing University, with a group of Chinese college students as subjects.
At computers in a laboratory setting, two groups were presented with a series of messages from Weibo - the Chinese equivalent of Twitter.
After reading each message, members of one group had options either to repost or go on to the next message. The other group was given only the "next" option.
After finishing a series of messages, the students were given an online test on the content of those messages.
Those in the repost group offered almost twice as many wrong answers and often demonstrated poor comprehension.
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What they did remember they often remembered poorly, Wang reported. "For things that they reposted, they remembered especially worse," she added.
The researchers found that reposters were suffering from "cognitive overload."
"When there is a choice to share or not share, the decision itself consumes cognitive resources," Wang explained.
After viewing a series of Weibo messages, the students were given an unrelated paper test on their comprehension of a "New Scientist" article.
Again, participants in the no-feedback group outperformed the reposters. The results confirmed a higher cognitive drain for the repost group.
"The sharing leads to cognitive overload, and that interferes with the subsequent task," Wang said.
"In real life when students are surfing online and exchanging information and right after that they go to take a test, they may perform worse," she suggested in a paper described in the journal Computers in Human Behavior.
The researchers suggest that web interfaces should be designed to promote rather than interfere with cognitive processing.
"Online design should be simple and task-relevant," Wang noted.
Source: IANS
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