https://redlib.catsarch.com/r/stupidpol/comments/1sebgrw/people_under_25_have_no_attention_span/

I saw Project Hail Marry last night and every time there wasn’t a space scene this guy I know would pull his phone out to browse TikTok. After skipping like a third of the movie once we all left he kept saying he hated the film.

Whenever I hang out with people and there’s any downtime whatsoever half of the group will pull out Instagram reels on their phone. I’m not holy than thou I have a very bad social media addiction but the few times I interact with friends in real life I keep my phone in my pocket. I guess we’re too dopamine dependent to face the quiet of life. Our brains chemically altered for the worse.

Another example is I went to a friend’s house to play this co-op horror game and I went to go check if I had my stuff in my jersey I took off. I went to the other side of the room to get it from the chair and within 5 seconds he took his phone out and stayed on there for 5 minutes looking at reels while I was sitting next to him.

Why is our attention so pacified?

Because these apps are algorithmically designed and tested to suck up as much attention as possible, young people got to be the Guinea pigs for the tech vampires and this is the result.

People ask why nobody is doing anything substantive to actually enact change. This is why.