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polyphobicDE t1_j54kihl wrote

Reduce your Social Media time. Especially Reddit.

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beBenggu OP t1_j54lvdz wrote

Oh, interesting! What about Reddit makes you think its making this habit worse? Or can you just tell I spend a lot of time here haha?

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polyphobicDE t1_j54wwhf wrote

I think the general scrolling behavior and looking for something that entertains us makes us tend to jump towards the end of paragraphs quicker. And that behavior extends to the offline-world. How often do you read just the first sentences and then jump to the end, just to see if it's worth reading the whole thing, when you find a veeeery long Reddit post? Social Media does something with our attention span, definitely. Just google it, there are loads of scientific papers on this.

https://scholar.google.de/scholar?hl=de&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=social+media+attention+span&btnG=

I think Reddit is even worse because it has the highest text share, at least in some subs.

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boxer_dogs_dance t1_j550is9 wrote

The book Stolen Focus by Johan Hari was accessible on this topic.

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DownrightAlpaca t1_j588jdt wrote

Does this book acknowledge people with Adhd may struggle more, does it not comment on adhd, or does it try to claim you can fix adhd with "this one trick"? I'm interested but tired of reading books that claim I can fix my executive functioning deficit if I try hard enough.

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boxer_dogs_dance t1_j58ajlb wrote

It is silent regarding ADHD and executive functioning. It talks about effects of social media on attention and focus in neurotypical people.

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lydiardbell t1_j558f7x wrote

I actually read about a study on reading where eye-tracking technology showed that people reading news and social media online tended to read the first sentence of a paragraph and then skip to the last one, while readers of print books and print newspapers did that significantly less often. Correlation != causation, but it's interesting.

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