A query, oh Hive Mind

[holyoutlaw]

What does "distraction culture" mean to you? Just off the top of your head, no googling.

Comments

[onyxlynx]

Individual definition, you understand, but: the constant bombardment of external Shiny, 24/7, birth to death; also the prioritizing of unimportant, ie celebrity, news over more substantial and important information.

Signed, Getting cranky just thinking about it.

[littlebutfierce]

It makes me think of the whole "MTV generation" thing, how the internet is supposedly making us less able to focus on things (& how I think in my case that might be somewhat true). Overload of information, & some of that is news but some of that is just "oooh, shiny, I found a video of a bulldog riding a skateboard on the internet!"

I've never heard the phrase before so I may be totally off-track.

[holyoutlaw]

It's the kind of thing where as soon as you hear it, you know what it means.

[waldo]

That we are now an "Ooh, a squirrel!" culture. We have the attention spans of young ferrets. If you need more words than you can put in a tweet to make your point, you're going on too long for most people.


It's very sad, actually.