Microsoft study shows that tech is shortening your attention span

[wraggster]

Think the abundance of technology in your life is making it harder to concentrate for long periods? Microsoft might just have some evidence to support your theory. It recently published a study (conducted using both surveys and EEG scans) suggesting that the average attention span has fallen precipitously since the start of the century. While people could focus on a task for 12 seconds back in 2000, that figure dropped to 8 seconds in 2013 -- about one second less than a goldfish. Reportedly, a lot of that reduction stems from a combination of smartphones and an avalanche of content. Many younger people find themselves compulsively checking their phones, and the glut of things to do on the web (such as social networking) makes it all too easy to find diversions.


http://www.engadget.com/2015/05/17/m...on-span-study/

[VampDude]

It's true, although very untrue.

There is a distinction of what people are using their technology for, in which determines how their mind can read and calculate the data that is being processed.

Myself, being a lifetime gamer. I can focus on one thing for more than three hours, whereas the games of today on devices such as smartphones, people are being dumbed down by the ever many clones of Candy Crush and social media.