Social networking sites 'bad for your health'
Social networking Web sites such as Facebook and MySpace may increase
the risk of health problems as serious as cancer, strokes, heart disease and
dementia by altering the way genes work, according to a report in the Biologist
journal
The number of minutes per day that Britons interact with other human beings has
fallen by two thirds in recent decades, from six hours in 1987 to just two hours
in 2007, Aric Sigman wrote in Biologist, the journal of the UK's Institute of
Biology, today.
The lack of "real" interaction combined with a dependence on technology is
increasingly associated with physiological changes known to influence morbidity,
or the extent of disease
Those changes include upsetting hormone levels, immune responses and blood
pressure, the function of arteries and mental performance.
The UK has the highest number of users of social networking sites compared with
other European countries
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