Comments on: What Loses as Social Media Wins?

By: Andrew Long

Andrew Long — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 18:57:27 +0000

I personally find myself being slowly trained to be less capable of concentrating on a single thing for a long period of time. Even when I am trying to write a document at work, I find myself “switching” rapidly to check Outlook or my IM every few minutes. This is a pattern of behavior that has been trained based on how Outlook functions, by checking email every 10-15 minutes. A new email must be responded to or read right away, of course, and this trains our brains to “fragment” our attention.

The antidote? For me, it’s meditation. Practicing single-pointed awareness for 10 to 20 minutes at a time is just the beginning, but undertaken as daily practice, I think it can be quite balancing to the always-on mentality of the modern world.

Love the site.

By: Wolf

Wolf — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:24:33 +0000

Based on the last two comments, then what we lose is the amount of attention given to the information we process. It doesn't matter if its for work or for recreative pourposes. The quantity of our attention decreases. This has a subsequent impact: If we reduce the amount of quantity of attention, we will decrease the quality also. Then there is simple question to be asked… Which information is worth the time to process and which not?…

By: @karenmanley

@karenmanley — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 16:10:05 +0000

I think people tend to half do many things at the same time, so I find myself with FB on in the background of my screen, TV on and talking to friends on MSN or something, so no one thing gets 100% of my attention.

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By: @thomaspower

@thomaspower — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 21:43:58 +0000

we simply process more information in a day than our parents did in a month

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