1 De namen van je vrienden beginnen met @
2 Je bent continu aan het multi-tasken met Twitter erbij
3 Je blogt meer en meer over Twitter-toepassingen
4 Je voelt je pas écht goed als jouw Tweet wordt gereTweeted
5 Je blijft je vrienden en familie pushen om een Twitteraccount aan te maken
6 Je stelt jezelf voor met je Twitteralias anders dan je eigen naam
7 je begint met Twitteren nog voordat je koffie op hebt in de ochtend
Het negatieve effect van multi-tasken
Neal Chambers van EnglishSpark (een educatieve community) schreef eens de wijze woorden over het negatieve effect van multitasken (met Twitter);
“Multitasking has been proven to be bad for your mental health in various studies. People who do heavy multi-tasking are unable to focus on things. By multitasking you are rewarding yourself for receiving multiple inputs at once. Over time, the mind becomes conditioned to focusing on multiple inputs regardless of whether those inputs are useful to the mind or not. This results in you becoming slower at accomplishing a task when more distractions are added.
Imagine if you are working in an office. There are plenty of distractions already. You have people chatting, phones ringing, people typing and people making announcements over the speakers. In this type of environment, heavy multitasking people have a harder time concentrating and completing their tasks.
What is the solution? Do the opposite. The opposite of multitasking is, of course, single-tasking. When using Twitter, only use Twitter. Don’t put Tweetdeck up in the background and attempt to track it while writing that important report or next semester’s syllabus.”
