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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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I'm not over 50, but remember that time very well and think this often. I guess I'll never know life solely after the interwep either (yes, I know I was born after the creation of the internet). I'm fully fluent in the technology, I'd bet more than the majority of the user, but never saw much of a point in most of it. Maybe it will be a long passing fad
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!
I often think the same thing.
When I graduated from highschool, cellphones didn't exist, neither did Microsoft or Apple and there was no publicly accessible internet.
Spending time with my friends meant exactly that. Nobody was calling anyone else or checking messages 50 times a minute. Now I see groups of people who don't even look at or speak to each other. Sorry, I don't get it.
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.
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.
My son used to have a girlfriend that would facebook him while they were in the same room but rarely talked to him. It used to piss him off to no end she would come over and have her nose stuck in her cell phone the entire time then be mad that he didn't pay attention to her {aka he stopped checking her facebook posts because they were in the same room}
One day I jokingly told him that if he was that unhappy he should just text her a break up while she was sitting next him with her nose stuck in her phone and that's eventually what happened.
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.