Attention Span Deterioration.
July 22, 2010 @ 6:58:00 PM
The human attention span is definitely getting shorter and shorter.
It's scary.
Let me use myself as an example.
Back in 2003, when I was a wee form one student, I had the habit of handwriting every detail I could remember about my day into a personal diary. I did it almost every single day.
I kept this habit up until I was in form three or four. By the time I was in form five the dates on my diary entries started getting further and further apart from each other. I guess it had something to do with the fact that I started my first blog on Xanga in 2005.
Handwritten diary to blog. First step of attention span shortening.
Okay, so, my blog. I remember updating it quite often.
A lot more often than I do now, at least.
When I look through the archives of this blogspot, the differences are quite obvious.
Lots of pictures. Quite a lot of detail and thought put into each post.
Right now, this post I'm typing out right now is probably the "deepest" I've written in a while.
The era of blogging is sort of a thing of the past now.
Because now, there are two [not that] new kids on the block.
Tumblr and Twitter.
Now, I have nothing against these at all.
I love Twitter.
It's quick, it's easy to use, and it's fun.
I still haven't really gotten to understand the appeal of Tumblr, though xD
But yeah, you see my point, right?
Anyway, just another one of my ocassional rants.
I was going to do a detailed post of my family trip to the Sabah Agricultural Park, but almost all of the photographs I took on the trip are on my Facebook already, hahaha.
Another one of the short attention span culprits xP
I wonder what's next, though.
What could beat Tumblr and Twitter in terms of being so quick and limited?