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The OP correctly mentions that we're dealing with real addiction here. Telling an addict to "just not do it" is futile.
by puttycat 1y ago
The OP correctly mentions that we're dealing with real addiction here. Telling an addict to "just not do it" is futile.
- yyx 1y agoDamn, I guess I skimmed the article with my short attention span :). He's right, but the title is clickbaity.
- teekert 1y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feh1ft2g9OM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feh1ft2g9OM
- card_zero 1y agoWhere does the unattributed, axis-doesn't-start-at-zero chart of declining attention span come from? It looks like there were five sample years since 2000, but who was sampled, and "attention span" was measured how? "As the chart shows, attention spans are plummeting" is not very impressive when the chart is just a line that goes down and some mysterious times in seconds. Tineye had nothing.
- sceptic123 1y agoBut not installing/using or blocking those apps is as much of an alternative as using a dumb phone.
- const_cast 1y agoSure, in the same was as "eat less" is a viable alternative for the obesity epidemic. But it's not a solution. Obviously, that just won't work for people who have a propensity to over-consume, or people who have a propensity to scroll in this case. If it were that easy, then everyone would do it. Then we'd all hold hands and sing Kumbaya.