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> tl;dr: The attention span of the person is now three seconds. If you can't grab that three seconds; next.

I don't know this is true in general. Only in very noisy environments, which is like the opposite of what a forum is. The harder you clamor for attention, the harder it is to actually capture it because you're creating an environment where capturing attention for more than three seconds is impossible.

If you create a low-noise environment, you can capture attention for a long time.



Maybe so after reading your comment. I've updated my post to reflect anecdotally.

If I'm browsing for music, and if the introduction doesn't catch me, I'll randomly skip to somewhere in the middle and if then normally pass.

It's known if a comment is wall of text, like this one it's ignored.

I don't own any social accounts apart from HN, Reddit and Discord. Never owned any yet how the internet drives out content I feel it effects all.

As far as sites go, I look at very few. And if there's slow flow of information I tend to get frustrated.

We are all hunting for that dopamine hit.




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