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ShangXian
The more I discover about Newgrounds, the more I see different worlds, flavours and hues.

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Wow, what a relatable!

It was an interesting study on this concept, slang and phenomenon.

btw thanks for the follow^^

Most interesting.

Some of the effects associated (for good reason) with being chronically online predate the Internet itself & are the unintended results of technological changes in media. I remember in the 1980's, slang terms for television included the "boob tube" & "idiot box". These terms were current because the effects of a steady diet of TV watching included reduced attention span, as well as more shallow cognition in general. It has been stated that in the 20th century, we went from a print civilization to a TV civilization...one could just as plausibly say in the late 1990's, we transitioned to an Internet civilization.

Totally agree.

Now that you mention the attention span I want to share here a study made by Microsoft on Canadian users and it showed a sad reality: since 2013, attention span has dropped to 8.25 seconds compared to the beginning of 2000s and a golden fish has a superior attention span (9 seconds).

https://dl.motamem.org/microsoft-attention-spans-research-report.pdf

This speaks volumes about the dangers of misuse of technology and steady diet of TV, social media, smartphones etc. just to use your words. I like the fact to call this civilization as "Internet civilization" and now we can see a sub-branch of this civilization: the social media civilization. Maybe in future (if things won't take a horrible turn considering the current instability across the world) there might be a holographic civilization. I wonder what effects might have in cognition a heavy consumption of holographic information.

Thanks for the input!

More than once, I've described people who can't focus as "having the attention span of a goldfish"... *smh* Though it proved me right, I am not happy to see recent research prove one of my stock ad hominems.

Assuming present trends hold, if a holographic/VR civilization emerges, my guess is that the attention span of the typical inhabitant would be equal to that of a gerbil on cocaine. The only other trend going on might be a tiny, fractured & spread out but defiant minority of readers. They'll be the ones who keep traditional press & independent bookstores going...those that still exist by then, that is.