Research on the long-term impacts of short-form video consumption is still lacking, but recent studies show concerning associations with cognition and mental health.
  • kautau@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    5 hours ago

    Obligatory Carl Sagan from 1995:

    I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time – when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness…

    The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance

    Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

  • alias_qr_rainmaker@lemmy.worldEnglish
    22·
    10 hours ago

    i’ve known about this shit for a while. social media killed my attention span years ago. adderall doesn’t help, you need some serious top-down compensatory strategies to deal with it

    • HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      2·
      2 hours ago

      As someone who fought against the idea of just getting outside for years I’ve started doing more outside activities and I find that it helps alot more than I wish to admit.

      Maybe that’s because I’m doing it all stoned outta my gourd though?

      Have you tried weed?

    • theneverfox@pawb.socialEnglish
      5·
      5 hours ago

      Gatekeep at the grocery store. It’s easier to resist eating a full tub of Oreos by deciding not to buy them in the first place

      It’s easier to moderate what platforms you use than it is to resist their affect on you. Restrict where and how you are exposed to short form video and what kinds of social media you use

      Also, take magnesium glycinate, but not on an empty stomach. Basically everyone with ADHD has a magnesium deficiency that makes the symptoms way worse

      • CosmoNova@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        4 hours ago

        Yup. People need to delete the apps from their phones. If they can‘t take that step they‘re not desperate enough for change.