so we have this wonderful thing called the internet that we use for about everything anymore.

We meet people, get news, watch movies, music, books, games, etc.

Its great we can do anything we like and go about anywhere we want and be anyone we want. Searches yield great amounts of information, images we might never otherwise see, news we may never get, and friends we would have never met.

It makes legends of nobodys, reputations both built and ruined, entire digital empires from nothing.

But is it a good thing? has our attention span gone to nothing?

we can blame ADD/ADHD or whatever name is the cool thing this week but is it because we have nothing to truly focus on for more than 30 seconds at a time?

DSL/Cable Modem/T lines all move information so fast we get mad at our systems if they take more than 20 seconds to load a page...when the case not too long ago was being happy that you could get your 56k modem to dial in at 49k consistently.

Whats your thoughts on this?

 

Patience... something a lot of kids need to learn.

 

Argh this thrend took more than 30 seconds to read.














:chuckles:

 

I'm sorry my 30 seconds were up after reading the first 1/2 of your post John. I read slow because of my ADD :fawk:


ehehhe

but seriously I agree. I know it's hard for me to concentrate on doing on task, so I try to multi-task a lot... not always but usually.

 

I have this problem too

I have a hard time holding conversations in real time because I am used to being able to switch from one thing to the next at will so I won't get bored.

 

this all explains my sexual experiences h:

 

ive been like that my whole life :happysad:

 

fortunately my hs didnt make computer classes mandatory so i dont have this problem
i also didnt have much access to cable tv so mtv has not left aan imprint on me
ill see to it my kids dont have too much access to high speed internet and cable tv

MTV SUCKS!

 

john...i never knew u write so well...