[sudo-discuss] Help with a senior thesis project studying the effects of the internet on young minds

Hi everyone, Meet Kevin. He's a senior at Met West High School, where they do a senior thesis project. Kevin is looking at the effects of the internet on young people, and how to get them focused more productively. If you'd like to be interviewed, let me know - we can pick up a time to invite Kevin to the Sudo room and talk to a few people at once. I know you have some opinions (and experience...) about this. :) Here's his proposal summary: My project idea is to help young people become aware and know what the internet and technology are doing to the planet and to our brains. Not only are young people, millennials, wasting their time on the internet with social networking sties, but they don’t gain anything educational and useful or for financial benefit while on these sites. One thing they are losing is time on the internet for social networking and not accomplishing work or homework with the same effort and competence. We should care because it is controlling people and just making them spend most of their time on the sites. Recent studies show that technology is changing how our brain works; reading, concentration, contemplation and our capacity, which are also losing the full abilities of the human brain. Since we depend on technology so much, I want to make people aware of how our brain is being impacted and find different ways that we can minimize our loss. I want to tell them that they should use their brain power and time on something that will help them in the future so they do not lose both of them during the same time at a young age. -- Cheers, Anca. -- -=-=-=- Anca Mosoiu | Tech Liminal anca(a)techliminal.com M: (510) 220-6660 http://techliminal.com | T: @techliminal | F: facebook.com/techliminal