Big-Brained People Have More Facebook Friends

“Scientists have found that the bigger your Facebook friend roster is, the larger your brain is.

Researchers at the University College of London wanted to investigate whether hand-wringing over the Internet being bad for humans is really necessary. So they studied brain scans from 125 university students, all of whom were active Facebook users. They compared their brains to the size of the students’ network of friends and found that the gray matter in students with lots of Facebook friends was more voluminous than in people with fewer friends.”

I know some folks in our field will despise this research.  Now if it was calculating the number of books you’ve read correlated brain size we’d be seeing that populate the blogosphere and twittersphere so fast that our heads would spin.

Another link:

Facebook Friend Count Linked to Brain Density [STUDY]

via Mashable! by Todd Wasserman on 19/10/11

http://mashable.com/2011/10/19/facebook-friend-count-brain/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Mashable+%28Mashable%29

Stephen