Multitasking fuels your brain

Social media at times is a blur of seemingly meaningless updates. But University of Washington researchers say the interaction it spurs can stimulate brain activity; the social part of the brain affects which computational skills a person picks up.

Multi-tasking -- updating Twitter status, instant-messaging friends, or answering text messages and e-mails while doing something else stimulates new patterns of sequential processing. In short, networking online is at least acting as a brain innovator, promoting new paths of discovery and interactivity in the brain, researchers say.

Maybe all that juggling is paying off.