comment: >
  
  TL:DR please
context: Sorry, I got too distracted to read your post till the end >
  
  I got to "shorter than a goldfish" and realized OP has no idea what they're talking about, so I stopped reading >
  
  That's not my idea. I just looked up "are attention spans getting shorter" and that's the sort of result you get on that search. >
  
  Then whatever website you used to form your opinion has no idea what they were talking about and that's why your opinion is wrong. >
  
  If you're right it not an opinion.
  It's a fact. It's either true or not >
  
  Gold fish have AN EXPECTED MEMORY OF 3 SECS, not attention span (which has been disproven).
  Well done, you've just played yourself. >
  
  I used to be able to read a 3-400 page book in 2 days in primary school. As an adult this now takes me a week. My phone has destroyed my capacity to focus and be present >
  
  Funnily enough I was reading that in countries where cellphone use is much lower, attention spans are longer. Imagine that >
  
  You don’t think smartphones have lowered the collective attention over the last 2 decades?  Are you Amish? >
  
  I disagree. Next time you sit to watch a movie, count how many times you pick up your phone >
  
  Twice at best lmao >
  
  Still kind of a lot >
  
  No it isn’t lol, that’s only twice in the span of a roughly 2 hour movie. 1hr attention span is a lot better than an 8 second one >
  
  But the movie is entertainment, so what’s the point of looking at your phone? And don’t say “well if it’s a boring movie…”. >
  
  Ever quit dopaminergic activities for a while? I have. I didn't realize how bad my attention span was fucked up until I did. 
  So from that annecdotal experience and from afknowledging that most people spend a lot of their time on social media, video games, porn or other such forms of entertainment I concluded that our attention spans really being fucked on a societal scale makes a lot of sense. 
  So I disagree. >
  
  
  I think there would be some big problems if our average attention was cut by a third in just twenty years.
  
  Have you seen how terrible everyone is at driving lately? Getting worse by the year.
  Jokes aside, I'm pretty sure there might actually be a case to be made about people losing their attention spans, but all of our educational and societal infrastructure simply breaking down to match it.
  And really I'm not kidding about driving. Every day when I drive into work, at every single interesection, someone holds up the entire line of traffic because they are not paying attention. Even just 10 years ago, it wasn't this bad.