Have we lost all ability to focus?

[catcauphonic]

...Or just that people are becoming illiterate?

'Or is it just that...' i believe is the correct sentence form to not leave any words out. (In case nobody has pointed that out already )

 

[D M C]

Whatevs

 

[Old Garage-Bander]

What kind of barbarian only gets 3 buscuit halves? He left half of one cold and lonely by the stove!

he said "buscuit" I said "ironic."

 

[Old Garage-Bander]

Here's a funny video of a cat on a roomba:

I hear that Roomba comin' coming round the bend...

 

[Bikeguy57]

Here's a funny video of a cat on a roomba:

Epic! Stupid and clueless doesn't begin to describe that.

 

[Johnny Crab]

@project_c It becomes MUCH worse if your late Mom was an English teacher. Then every error in all printed matter jumps off the page or screen. Benefit of such an affliction? Your bosses sometimes visit your cubicle to ask proper use of words, sentence structure, and for you to read their work before they send it out.

When one is paid for handling engineering projects, being able to focus for extended periods of time is mandatory.

PS: The cell phone here is very old and four more are at home that were purchased off of eBay for about $5 each so their batteries can be harvested as-needed. Qualcomm made one great one that can be dropped, drowned, run over, or totally discharged and it still survives. It is a PHONE. It cannot be remotely turned on and has no spy camera built-in. It can be tracked via triangulation but only if it is powered up and not in a Faraday shield baggie.

 

[SlyFoxtrot]

There’s been a lot of talk about the internet, phones and people losing the ability to pay attention to anything for longer than about a second. Now I’m no grammar nazi, but I’m noticing a weird thing happening both here and in my daily life. Almost every thread I read here on TB has a few posts that have words missing. So people will write whatever they’re writing, but miss out a word here and there. It's everywhere, like an epidemic. Meanwhile, people I’m emailing reply without having read the email, or they misread parts of the email and reply with nonsense, or again, reply and miss out words for no reason. People are not only skim-reading, they’re skim-writing. Is this a sign that our collective brains are slowly falling apart? Or just that people are becoming illiterate?

I think so.

In my opinion it's people thinking about the future or wallowing about the past. One or the other robs them of their focus.

Stillness baby. It's like a superpower these days.

 

[catcauphonic]

Here's a funny video of a cat on a roomba:

That was not what i was expecting, but fun

Epic! Stupid and clueless doesn't begin to describe that.

You really think so? I couldn't think that until i saw it at full speed

 

[Tom Bomb]

Here's a funny video of a cat on a roomba:

You could take an eye out with that!

 

[D M C]

You could take an eye out with that!

With what now?

 

[Tom Bomb]

With what now?

A cat doing the rumba, I think it was written.

 

[D M C]

A cat doing the rumba, I think it was written.

Oooo, Yeah, daddy-o. That was one cool cat!

 

[project_c]

I like the way this thread has become random and chaotic, it suits the subject matter.

'Or is it just that...' i believe is the correct sentence form to not leave any words out. (In case nobody has pointed that out already )

I never said I was above it! Guilty as charged. I've noticed my attention span goes to crap as a result of the following:

- using facebook for any more than 1 minute
- instagram (i post on it regularly for work but i hate spending time on it)
- someone mentioned coffee earlier, definitely makes my brain lose focus
- phone games. in fact video games in general.
- lack of sleep

 

[D M C]

I know! Sometimes I think people have lost the ability to focus, not only in reading, but also in reading things. I think it's because of how we focus on things. And writing too.

 

[bluesblaster]

Why I oughta...................what was the topic again ?

 

[ZenG]

I'll be focussed as soon as I put my reading glasses on.

 

[D M C]

I blame the chyron. It's hard to follow the talking heads when the news is crawling at the bottom of the screen, screaming for attention.

And autocorrect has made us fat, lazy and stupid.

 

[Munjibunga]

There’s been a lot of talk about the internet, phones and people losing the ability to pay attention to anything for longer than about a second. Now I’m no grammar nazi, but I’m noticing a weird thing happening both here and in my daily life. Almost every thread I read here on TB has a few posts that have words missing. So people will write whatever they’re writing, but miss out a word here and there. It's everywhere, like an epidemic. Meanwhile, people I’m emailing reply without having read the email, or they misread parts of the email and reply with nonsense, or again, reply and miss out words for no reason. People are not only skim-reading, they’re skim-writing. Is this a sign that our collective brains are slowly falling apart? Or just that people are becoming illiterate?

Some us are getting old.

 

[ONYX]

 

[BurnOut]

I had a manager of a small region of shops. They had trouble filling the position, so they picked a big guy not real bright. Upper management was hoping he'd scare the employees and be a puppet manager. He sent out the most ignorant misspelled emails throughout the company. The whole shop loved and collected them, very unprofessional. Plus his tendency to react with chest puffed out vs think things through. Could never understand how he could just type, hit send, without reading them.