How To Use Social Media To Boost Your Brain Power

Befriend people from foreign countries and join groups that use another language to communicate. Immersing yourself in a foreign language can help your brain become flexible and develop fluency.

Check out activity streams on your friends’ profiles and observe how their behavior transitions over time; making associations between past, present, and future actions develops your working memory, according to one researcher.

Take breaks to log on to social networking sites during work and become a more productive employee; researchers have found that giving your brain a chance to reset allows you to tackle your next project with gusto.

Keep up with updates to your current social networks and learn to use new technology as it’s released; adapting to changes in interactive media increases function in areas of the brain that affect decision making and short-term memory.

Customize your profiles frequently to test your creative limits and teach your brain to adjust to and control situations. For an even bigger challenge, build your own social-networking site to give your fellow social media users a new opportunity to charge their brains.