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The quick speed of what’s happening on Twitter and other social networks can prevent us in feeling sympathy for others. New research shows that the digital daily life has its bad effects.

The constantly updates of our status on Facebook, Twitter and MSN can appear as an endless line of superficiality glimpse into close and familiar friends life situations. Researcher’s fears that the battle of attention online makes us emotional callous.

A research project conducted by the University of Southern California have looked at how long time the brain uses to register feelings, and what relationship the empathy has in the social-digital era.

When spending time on our computers, we are distancing ourselves in a great deal away from other people. When there is no personal contact between yourself and the one that needs your empathy one might get, to the utmost consequence, an experience a weakening like the research refers to. However, it isn’t surprising that people is disappearing in the crowd. On social networks, like Facebook, many people have over 400 friends, it’s obvious that it will be difficult to understand and have the knowledge of what each of them is doing in addition to have empathy for all of them.