Go outside and play

I herein cut and paste the following excerpt from a father’s advice to his son going to college, for your information-

Your brain, social media and binge-watching.

Now that internet access is omnipresent on college campuses, academics are looking at its connection to your GPA and your life after college. One of the first efforts from Oxford (UK) looked at the impact on student GPA from the use of technology while studying. Here’s what they found: while increasing use of email and search engines was positively correlated with GPA, activities such as texting, instant messaging and media platforms like Facebook hurt student GPA. What this is really all about: humans have maximum capacities for cognitive learning through verbal and auditory channels, and with too much social media use, many people hit their multi-tasking limits.

An even bigger distraction is video streaming. A Texas Tech professor estimates that 9 out of 10 students use services like Netflix, and that ~70% binge-watch shows (i.e., watching at least 3 episodes at a stretch). Over the long run, what’s the risk of too much TV and not enough physical activity? By the time you reach middle age, your ability to perform simple matching and numeric tasks could erode. Too much screen time was also associated with premature aging in a 2015 study from the Mayo Clinic, and with depression and loneliness in a 2015 study on binge-watching from the University of Texas.

End of excerpt.

Go outside and play.