How do you feel about the decline of long-form posts?

@jehova There is all this talk about "People have short attention spans", but no one ever says, "Maybe the message is not worth reading".

If someone writes too much boring stuff, of course it won't get read.

@HoeBag I’m prone to agree my attention span has certainly decreased since being a child. It seems a combination of memory saturation (my hard drive is full) over stimulation and constant interruption. I’ll be right back I’m getting a phone call.
Life is boring upon reaching high school (that was 2003 for me), everything is on repeat and becomes just kinda blah

@jehova Things do become monotonous. We think somewhere, somehow, there is this fascinating life waiting for us.

It is not that people have short attention spans, it is just that a lot of stuff is boring.

Well like, how come people diagnosed with A.D.D. can somehow spend countless hours on a video game or whatever bull?

@HoeBag I actually broke the monotony by doing my own science research my research from 9th (2003) to 12th grade (2007) pertained to the dopamine response of the brain when it receives a double affirmative response. So simply put the dopamine response of saying yes yes when completing a task (my task was moving a ball from one location to another using my impaired hand; then saying yes yes.) It was profound (about a 30% increase, in neurogenisis) for neurological healing after nerve damage following brain injury (I’d had the injury). Therefore the connection here is video games produce a dopamine or endorphins production response in the brain. At the end of a mission in a game or every time a line is completed in Tetris as examples; a message such as, like you’re killing it, well done, good job etc. is displayed when a task is completed or progress achieved) that message results in an instant dopamine release in the brain. The student population is accustomed to the instant pleasure response that technology, media, cellphone games, etc has created.
In order, to keep everyone engage the system must work with that new model of behavior.
In short segments and quickly.

@jehova About this part -
When I was a kid, there was this game called "Shinobi", some n*nja game.
Anyways during the bonus stage, if you didn't succeed, the letters "You failed" came on the screen.

I was joking with my son, saying, "Yeah they could not do that today, Gen Z would be too triggered" 😄

[media=https://youtu.be/nJaI4vP7D08]

@HoeBag would be such a trigger right? But that was the pitfall!, Now any negative response or reprimand even if/when appropriate is labeled bullying and/or insensitive. Yet somethings
are bad if we cannot instruct what not to do with negative reinforcement that entices an entirely different set of problems. I got spanked when I ran into traffic to emphasis NOT TO DO THAT! because it was dangerous ( likely to elicit a consequence . Affirmative reinforcement alone obviously is not sufficient! But that’s where digital capitalism is stuck.

@jehova 13 year old me never got upset when that screen came on, I knew it was just a game, never had an emotional response. BTW that is not my video, just something I found on YT.

@HoeBag fyi I haven’t watched it yet but I will now

@HoeBag I was 13 when I had my injury (in 8th grade, DEC. 2003) and then started by research ( in 9th grade 9 months later in early October). There was a school shooter the same year at my high school. I was a freshman. One of the first WTF.