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How Tech Ate the Media and Our Minds (axios.com)
From a report: On average, we check our phones 50 times each day -- with some studies suggesting it could three times that amount. We spend around 6 hours per day consuming digital media. As a result, the human attention span has fallen from 12 seconds to eight seconds since 2000, while the goldfish attention span is nine seconds. And we just mindlessly pass along information without reading or checking it. Columbia University found that nearly 60 percent of all social media posts are shared without being clicked on.
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Glad I'm over 50 and know what life was before interwebz. Still do. Its grand. Not being tethered to a communication device, coming and going wherever and whenever I want. You poor, POOR, self-imposed attention-deprived kids. Your life, your childrens, and theirs will never know the freedom mankind has enjoyed for the last 100,000+ years. I pity you. Truly.
I think I should comment on thi
Such as this vaccuous story.
"As a result, the human attention span has fallen from 12 seconds to eight seconds since 2000, while the goldfish attention span is nine seconds."
I'll bet that the evidence for this is rock solid.
And in other news today, the proliferation of social media has led to the decline of proof reading your posts, leaving out silly, little, unimportant words:
On average, we check our phones 50 times each day -- with some studies suggesting it could three times that amount.
Perhaps this might read better if it had a simple, little word in there:
On average, we check our phones 50 times each day -- with some studies suggesting it could BE three times that amount.
Yes, I did read the article. They left the word out there too. Oh, the irony of it all!
Awk! Pieces of eight. Pieces of eight. Pieces of seven... ERROR: General Protection Fault. [Paroty Error.]
Speak for yourself, Sparky. Not all of us are FB zombies. There are dozens of us. DOZENS!
Who the heck has time for wasting 6 hours per day on FB and friends?
Well, T.V. arguably ruined the mind of the older generation. The best people from that generation were the ones that self-limited their time in the common pursuits of the day. So, just don't do that and you'll be better than your peers.
And while it made some interesting pointsSQUIRREL
“Common sense is not so common.” — Voltaire
"nearly 60 percent of all social media posts are shared without being clicked on"
Yeah, because it's now all about, "How does sharing this post make me look to my 'Friends'", Slacktivism, virtue-signalling and affirmation-seeking. Worldwide Digital Tribalism.
An article that uses the false fact that a goldfish has an attention-span/memory of nine seconds complains that it's harder than ever to know what articles can be trusted. It's not even good irony. It's just aggravating irony. The attention span statistic is cited to an article from Time, which cites it to a "study" by Microsoft, which cites it to some source called "Statistic Brain", which doesn't cite SHIT.
I asked a goldfish what he thought of the latest independent film I brought home, and he lost interest in nine seconds. Which is surprising because my friend, who by appearances I judge to be human, will discuss the film for hours. Obviously the fish is lacking in both an attention span and culture.
“Common sense is not so common.” — Voltaire
The real question here is *beep* hang on, email... ... What we must pay attention to is *beep* text message, ... hah (writes answer), errr right, as I was saying, *starts car*, err, *beep beep beep* (puts on seatbelt) It's a difficult world to *facebook notification* haha omg, Err... driving right now ... Send ... Semi truck horn ... 24 months later. I love apples!
Our attention span has not reduced to 8 seconds. Heavy consumers of media and tech do not pay attention to non-interactive content (TV, ads), but are better at paying attention to interactive content (games, software). This is a shift of attention from passive consumers to active participants. When presented with passive content, tech users tune out... no surprise. But that's not the same as a globally reduced attention span.
The full report is available.
"I will trust Google to 'do no evil' until the founders no longer run it." Hello Alphabet.
Won't someone children think of!
The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority, they show disrespect to their elders.... They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and are tyrants over their teachers.
The young people of today think of nothing but themselves. They have no reverence for parents or old age. They are impatient of all restraint. They talk as if they alone knew everything and what passes for wisdom with us is foolishness with them. As for girls, they are forward, immodest and unwomanly in speech, behaviour and dress.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sci...
https://www.theguardian.com/me...
And from NYU http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/apps...
They're going for the ironic share without reading. It's a good thing too - the article is complete shit.
Depending on how you define the terms, you'd (apparently) be wrong. Id define "on average" in this case to be "more than half".
http://www.rferl.org/a/report-...
"On average, we check our phones 50 times each day -- with some studies suggesting it could three times that amount. We spend around 6 hours per day consuming digital media."
I would feel ashamed if I did either of those things at anywhere near that frequency.
I don't check my phone unless it rings.
I check my email maybe 5 or 6 times a day, sometimes more often if something is in process and needs attention.
I don't check social media because I don't have any.
And for the record, studies have shown that goldfish have memories well in excess of 9 seconds. Some of them can remember actions they've been trained to do for more than a year. That 9-second stuff is one of those things that sounded cool and so it got repeated endlessly until it became accepted as a "fact". (Similar to the "you only use 10% of your brain" and other nonsensical bullshit.)
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
... they're saying it's time to bring back Short Attention Span Theater?
Dear Slashdot: next time you want to mess with the site, add a rich-text editor for comments.
Yeah he's pretty great but I've noticed with his social media stuff he can get a little I Am Very Smart with his posts.
But what human doesn't have their faults and idiosyncrasies?
On the Oregon Cost born and raised, On the beach is where I spent most of my days
And as a result of this, we are maturing more late than our parents did it. I saw an research that said that before, without this all technological advances and these social tools, people become mature when they were like 17 or 18 and now the range is among 24-26. I am the a clear example of what this new is talking about. I spend most of my days in front of the computer, mostly in Facebook and in Youtube, seeing a constant bombing of news that capture me and make me forget the real and important things in life. Sadly, the trend it is going to getting worse... I just only expect that within a few years we aren't like the human beings in the movie "Wall-e".
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