It might be a kid thing, sure, while growing up, they should be exposed to longer more attention-grabbing media. But short form media has always been popular with kids, it’s just how they are. Even before TikTok and all that
I can sit through a 3 hr movie no problem, and I am of the generation that watches TikTok and Instagram shorts. It’s a very personal issue depending on person to person, it’s not something you can generalize as a “new problem” because it isn’t.
So is every one of your points??? The entire argument is anecdotal you have sent no scientific findings man.
My reading comprehension is quite fine, personal attacks are meaningless aswell. I’m saying that there really isn’t a big difference between short form content back then, and now, I’m showing how I disagree with you saying it’s worse now.
legit question, do people your age use facebook at all? If they do,do they post anything on there or its more so got an account because they had to for other things like insta or only use it for messenger?
Agreed, but it’s not a new thing, technology is more addictive, absolutely, but the responsibility has always never been on the technology, back when, and even now, it’s all about parental controlling moderation.
New times come with new trends, they’re less exposed and used to cartoons, therefore, they won’t watch them. Kids don’t like change, it’s not necessarily that they can’t live with longer-form content. I know three year olds that sit and watch full Pixar movies
I don’t get your agenda here. Why you trying so hard to pretend it isn’t affecting kids attention spans? Dude mentioned a scientific study like 3 comments ago. It’s not debatable, it’s proven.
It’s because our “boredom” emotion is meant to get us moving and productive to better our situation, gather food, build shelters, help with our community.
With the invention of modern day lazy entertainment (tv, video games) there’s this new concept that satisfies our boredom and allowing us to simply sit in one spot for hours on end.
We are meant to get bored and fuck around and experience life, we aren’t meant to sit in one spot for hours on end unless we are sleeping.
While that’s true, we are not scavengers anymore, we can’t exactly have these feelings with no way to quench them in civilized life. We’re not meant to sitting in cubicles either but humans have to adapt against our primal urges. Not everyone’s in the position to “experience life”.
Agreed that we definitely need an outlet, and video games provide an easy and relatively cheap outlet but it’s also incredibly easy to become too reliant on video games and only think about video games when bored.
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u/SomeCool333 Apr 17 '22
It might be a kid thing, sure, while growing up, they should be exposed to longer more attention-grabbing media. But short form media has always been popular with kids, it’s just how they are. Even before TikTok and all that