Social websites harm children's brains: Chilling warning to parents from top neuroscientist
Primary Contributor to the Website (if given) (author, editor, producer, etc)	David Derbyshire
Title of the Entire Website (not www. )	News Mail Online
Publisher or Sponsoring Organization of the website (if given)	Mail Online
Date Page was Last Revised	24 Febraury 2009
Date You Read It	15 February 2012
(ALL of it)	http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1153583/Social-websites-harm-childrens-brains-Chilling-warning-parents-neuroscientist.html

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With Facebook it is very easy to " keep in touch with friends, share photographs and videos and post regular updates of" children's movements and thoughts (David Derbyshire).

Research discovered that social media networks are "said to shorten attention spans, encourage instant gratification and make young people more self-centred" (David Derbyshire).

Now that kids are being on the computer constantly it seems like "digital technology is changing the way" they think (David Derbyshire).

Studies say that children's brain development is damaged from being online too much "because they don't engage in the activity they have engaged in for millennia" (David Derbyshire).

No one should really be against technology and computers, but before kids "start social networking, they need to learn to make real relationships with people" (David Derbyshire).

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Author named David Derbyshire is investigating research on how social websites are becoming a harm to children. He gathered this information from scientists doing studies about the topic and other resources that he had read.

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David Derbyshire an author that writes articles on different subjects.

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The author is gaining information from professors that are studying this topic. He quotes what they say and is learning from what they advise.

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The author is going for the more negative approach for social media websites since he lists all the bad influences for this topic.

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The author puts down quotes from a professors that discussed the same topic.

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