The University of California found that surfing the web is good for the brain. Actually, it stimulates parts of the brain that banging your head against a wall while shouting “Nyip Nyip BAAAAHH!” doesn’t.
No, I wasn’t that shocked to find it out either.
But lets look at this subjectively. I see major flaws in the research. I will list some, but I think you will have a few more which I welcome to hear in the comments section!
My first piece of evidence is that if I go surfing for ways to paint my house, my brain level will decrease with boredom to the point where my intelligence hits that of your average corpse; which granted is not much more below my average level.
My second is that if I was to read up on the finer points of being an accountant, I would actually lose brain cells as my head hits the desk and I start to dribble while mouthing the words “make it stop”. As a side not, this one comes in very handy at night when I can’t sleep and I get my wife to talk about what she does at work. Likewise, I talk IT to her when she cant sleep. We are a marriage made in heaven when it comes to insomnia! The rest of the time she just thinks I am a jerk. With good reason I fear!
Moving on to the obvious, what if they were surfing for material that helps with “one handed surfing”? That is going to stimulate a LOT more than just the brain which means that blood flow is moved from your brain to “other” areas of the body. And then once any one handed surfing may be complete, the brain activity is going to move to the “snooze” setting. Again, this shows that the evidence is slightly flawed. But this surfing technique does a lot more than that. If you spend too much time testing this theory, you will go blind.
What if you surf while drunk? You will be seeing two of everything. Does that mean that you are duplicating your intelligence? I have an idea this may be right, because when I get drunk I know the answers to everything. And I mean that. I will fight you if you don’t believe what I say. Alcohol makes me a modern day Einstein.
So just what were they using to test the theory? And who were they using? The worlds most uninteresting person maybe? A person that finds the mouse moving across the screen stimulating? Or did they only let them see certain sites which didn’t include nude images of Britney Spears? In fact, maybe they only showed sites that promised nude pictures of famous people to see how active the brain would become trying to find a way in which doesn’t involve getting your credit card out?
I just don’t understand the working behind the research, and it has to be a truck load of crap. All I know is that writing this post has given me a headache and made me think too hard compared to my non-Internet using time.
Haaaaang on….
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