Are we just mice in the society?
Did you know that the average human being has an attention span of less than a goldfish?
From 2016 to the current year the attention span is around 8 seconds, a goldfish on the other hand has around 9 seconds. Isn't it amazing that a goldfish that can fit into the palm of a small child has more focus than a person? One of the significant causes was the internet. Since 2016 social media and online chatting platforms have been getting more popular, especially during the COVID-19 years. People found other ways to distract themselves from being stuck at home for almost a year and a half. Many people switched to watching tiktok and small clips of news,
they could get any information in about 8-15 second clips and move onto the next video. It can come in handy to get information fast and easily but it’s still not enough to write whole papers or gather a thought on it, so you keep scrolling by, ignoring it onto the next video and the next and the next…