Facebook addiction ‘activates same part of the brain as cocaine’
Internet addiction activates the same areas of the brain as drugs such as cocaine, but is much easier to quit, a study suggests
Or, as we might rewrite the story.
Things that humans enjoy doing light up the parts of human brains that register the things that humans enjoy doing.
OffYourFaceBook.
And that, Tim, is why you don’t get any lucrative research grants. 🙂
It’d be interesting to know which part of the brain Twatter lights up. I suspect it’s the part shared with plankton.
This is the millionth study which “suggests” that X is like cocaine.
Science is destroying itself.
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Twitter lights up the Borg implants in the brain.
Twitter merely points the way to the nearest outrage bus stop.
It couldn’t possibly be that cocaine works because it “activates the same part of the brain” that lights up when people do things they enjoy?
‘Twatter’ would be a good name for Mumsnet.
Well there may be something to this. My experience of cocaine users is that they won’t shut up about what they think is fascinating but which most people would describe as rambling incoherently about nothing.
So a lot like Facebook really. And the rest of the internet.
Bollocks, I’m willing to pay £60 a gram for coke but fuck all for FB so they are in no way equivalent.
60 quid for 1g of coke? Get yourself 3g of speed for a tenner