November 3, 2009
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Short entry
{Slightly ironic}
So I was thinking about attention span. We were talking about it last semester in Rel/Pop Culture...about how TV has influenced our attention spans; apparently our attention spans are about as long as a TV show runs before being cut by a commercial. It was only in recent years that I started watching TV on a weekly basis (generally on Fridays as my brain-fizzling time). So it is easy for me to underestimate the influence of TV. Do people really watch enough of it to affect their attention spans else where? Perhaps the increasing amounts of TV online will increase that attention span again (possibly fewer and shorter ads?).
What got me thinking about this was yesterday's Pearls Before Swine:
What happens if things like text messages and Twitter shortens are spans down from 10-ish minutes down to 140 characters? Wakka! Except fortunately we don't think with character count built in O_~. But still...
On other notes, I love crunchy leaves!! This reminds me a little of that, though it is kicking rather than stomping...
Sometimes I imagine myself with those little candies musical notes and suns popping out when I'm really happy too.
crunchy leaves: bubble wrap :: nature : man-madeOn another note, not related except that it is another comic strip, I thought this was sweet:
(: Hope to find someone that will treasure me like that! (:
Comments (11)
I think attention span is something you have to work to build. Like, it starts out small naturally. So if people are growing up with shorter attention spans, it's because they haven't been exercising it. That is my theory, although I admit I haven't done any double blind studies to actually test it.
Cute comics, especially the third one
@phantomFive -
Hmm, maybe I should work on this then (:, hahaha. O_o If it works that way, it also degenerates really quickly. And over working it can cause temporary craziness. Maybe like muscles.
@Roadlesstaken -
(: It's 9 Chickweed Lane, in case you're interested.
@phosphor_stars -
haha yes, but if you are having trouble with your attention span I'm quite sure it is because of lack of sleep!
Ugh...my attn. span is the worst ever... I seriously don't know how I made it this far in life -_-'
This past summer, I was starting to study my list of 100 top prescribed drugs. First on the list was acetaminophen/hydrocodone. I started reading the Wiki, was led astray by its cross-linking, and eventually found myself reading about things like charcoal, refrigeration, chocholate poisoning in dogs, and the opium wars in China an hour or so later *sigh*
Self-diagnosis: ADHD....self-prognosis: hopeless. Maybe it had something to do with the amount of T.V. I watched in elementary school :O I've rarely watched TV in the past 5 years though, and I don't even have cable now, yet it's not quite helping lol.
Crunchy leaves are fun... too bad there aren't more trees on the health sciences campus here...at least not the type that produces crunchy leaves
The last comic made me think about how great it must be to have photographic memory...not just for efficient studying...ahaha
I confess , Melinda , that like the sun or the moon , my attention span gets sometimes eclipses !!
In friendship
Michel
@phantomFive -
Heh heh, I've been squeezing in some power naps. A lot of them actually. Pretty much when I find myself having a LOT of problems concentrating, I hit the sack (zzzzzzzzzzz). Maybe I should go crash now actually x_x.
@phosphor_stars -
lol good job
@a_drunken_cellist -
Haha, nice!! How exactly did that train of thought go? Or I guess you were leaving out some of the steps...
I love almost any websites' "random" function...Wikipedia, xkcd...Xanga back in the old old days used to have one too, and it would direct us to random Xangans. I thought that was pretty fun (:. I bet you have to steer clear of StumbleUpon then? :[[[ I generally avoid it unless I'm home.
Lol. Awwww.
Too many interests here and there? (:? Hahaha, I watched a ton of TV as a kid too. (: Actually a huge chunk of what I remember from those days was TV. O_O I guess it was a good way to learn English? I felt like a lot of that stuff had at least lessons about character, whereas a lot of modern TV is just fluff. :[ So while I watched things like Bill Nye and Magic School Bus, kids nowadays watch Hannah Montana...O_o
Haha, that would be really nice...except it might be frustrating if you wanted to print a picture out of your head but couldn'd O_~. I guess then there would be a lot of motivation to sharpen art skills. (: Do you know if photographic memory would include remembering everything every day/moment? Or is it just remembering the way everything looks from select moments? The Wiki article makes it sound selective (i.e. studying something for...), but then some of their examples make it sound like everything (CS Lewis...[unless everything he read he studied O_~]). Maybe it differs from person to person. The article also mentions synesthesia, which I think is one of the coolest things ever. (:!
awww loving the comics!