Here in the Pygmy Forest

[uhohs]

thread cliffnotes: we're all morons, perknose is superior. thx.
my response: his face is a pygmy forest.
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Originally posted by: TridenTBoy3555
Uhh... You all must be weird because my attention span has never fluctuated at all from the internet. Maybe I am special and uniquely superior. 🙂

I think it's bullshit. The only reason I do not pay attention to something is because it is not interesting to me at the moment. It's like me(atheist) reading The Bible. I do not really want to read it just because I do not like it. It's not a matter of me having bad concentration on a book or something, it's just that I dislike what I am reading and WANT to stop. It's not that I need to or can't keep going.. But it's just painful to read through something and go, and people really believe this as fact.

Maybe you all NEED to stop or something but I never feel that way except when I am tired. The internet has never affected my reading skills in a negative way.

Also, if anything the more internet you consume, the more skeptical you should become. Right? I mean come on, so much bullshit is on this place.. It's hard to not realize what a non-factual website is like. We've seen so much BS on this place, you'd think the more internet savvy you are... The more likely you'll disbelieve something. :-/ Of course many people don't have critical thinking skills to begin with usually. (Creationists, IDers)

EDIT: Agree with the above poster about how the people behind the FAILs and such are not always morons. A lot of them are just having their fun while doing some work or just kicking back and relaxing with a good old, "FAIL!". It isn't like those people are so stupid all they know how to post is, "FAIL! LALS i CNT SPEL LAWL." I only do that kind of stuff in mockery usually... hehe.

thanks for trying to turn this into a religion bashing thread too troll face.
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[spidey07]

I've said all along that we're in an information overload and our brains just can't process it all. You see it in kids when they get out of school, they can't concentrate on one thing for more than a short time, constantly bouncing between tasks but not really getting anything done. They have to be constantly fed stuff but they never seem to learn from it. Learning and knowledge is being replaced by "I can just google it." Constantly have some kind of electronic device in their hand. This over stimulation just isn't good for the mind.

What's lost is ability to communication, ability to learn and develop knowledge.

 

[OdiN]

Originally posted by: spidey07
I've said all along that we're in an information overload and our brains just can't process it all. You see it in kids when they get out of school, they can't concentrate on one thing for more than a short time, constantly bouncing between tasks but not really getting anything done. They have to be constantly fed stuff but they never seem to learn from it. Learning and knowledge is being replaced by "I can just google it." Constantly have some kind of electronic device in their hand. This over stimulation just isn't good for the mind.

What's lost is ability to communication, ability to learn and develop knowledge.

Quoted for lulz.

 

[spidey07]

snicker, I originally wrote "lost is communication skills, ability..." and changed it

lulz

 

[OdiN]

lol yeah I typeo as much as the next person. Sometimes my brain gets ahead of my fingers and I end up typing words in the wrong place or starting a word with the letter from the next word I'm thinking.

Edit - And being dyslexic doesn't help.

 

[SsupernovaE]

And here I thought I would be treated to pics of the OP standing next to miniature trees. Kinda like an inverted giant Sequoia forest.

 

[seemingly random]

Originally posted by: SsupernovaE
And here I thought I would be treated to pics of the OP standing next to miniature trees. Kinda like an inverted giant Sequoia forest.

:laugh:

 

[uhohs]

Originally posted by: SsupernovaE
And here I thought I would be treated to pics of the OP standing next to miniature trees. Kinda like an inverted giant Sequoia forest.

that's what i was hoping for too. greatly disappointed i am. 🙁

 

[gar3555]

ya, my attention span has gone do... oh look a tree octopus...

 

[olds]

I have actually noticed this myself when reading. But it has also crept into another area of my life.
When watching TV and the program gets a little slow, I hit the 30 second skip button on the DVR remote (I don't watch live TV) to blast through the boring parts.
My attention span has... another butterfly---->