过度使用社交网络，会让你变得更迟钝_BEC初级作文

过度使用社交网络，会让你变得更迟钝

HOW SOCIAL MEDIA OVERLOAD REDUCES YOUR CAPACITY TO PROCESS INFORMATION

过度使用社交媒体会削弱你处理信息的能力

Social media networks are weapons of mass distraction.

社交网络是一个让人分心的大利器。

Each day we are inundated with a flood of information from social networks like Facebook, Twitter and Google+.

我们每天都被淹没在来自脸书、推特、谷歌+的信息洪流中。

Even if you didn’t have to work, eat or sleep, you wouldn’t be able to get through all the information being shared by your friends and colleagues on blogs and social networks.

即使你不用工作、吃饭、睡觉，你也看不完你同学和同事在各种播客和社交媒体上发布的东西。

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The problem we face is that much of this information grabs our attention and seems very interesting at first glance.

而我们面对的问题是，这些东西的确会吸引我们的注意力，而且乍看之下似乎都挺有趣。

At the same time, much of the information is also unimportant, disposable and it distracts us from more meaningful pursuits.

但同时，这其中的大部分信息都是不重要的、可有可无的，而它们都在阻止我们去做更有意义的事。

To make matters worse, when we spend a lot of time consuming information from our social media streams, we have tendency to forget what we have consumed anyway.