Have you ever multitasked? Do you think you are good at multitasking? Multitasking is when people do more than one thing at a time. Multitasking is an awful thing for people to do. Multitasking makes you less productive. People who multitask cannot focus and pay attention and they do not fully understand what they are doing. The first reason multitasking is bad for people because it makes them less productive. Michael Robb (the director of research for the Parental Advocacy Group of Common Sense Media) said that people don’t need to multitask to be a good worker. This suggests that multitasking is not something that you have to do to be successful. He also said that when multitasking people aren’t able to get things done as well because you must reorient which causes cognitive fatigue. Cognitive fatigue slows your work rate. This piece of evidence proves that multitasking isn’t good for your brain and makes you work slower. …show more content…
Larry Rossen, a psychology professor at California State University, told students to study for something important. They went two minutes without responding to a text or email. Therefore, people who multitask teach their brain to only focus on one thing for a short period of time. In addition, people who multitask, have worse social skills than if they were not to multitask. Their social skills are poor because they can’t pay attention said Clifford Nass a cognitive scientist at Stanford University. This shows that people do not learn to pay