Have attention spans dropped that drastically? Holy hell.
Absolutely. Many shows need to pad to 43 mins to fill an hour with ads, and it’s mostly wank
I urge you all; just watch one screen. Its all you have attention span for anyway, and youre just gonna end up unsatisfied trying to do both at once.
If it’s a good show sure. Some shows are just so bad you get distracted.
I need to know who’s downvoting this and why
Me but with audiobooks. I listen while driving home. A thought might distract me so I’ll hit back, only to get back on the train of thought while I wait for the audio to get to the part I missed. Only I’ll miss it again and have to hit back again.
That’s why I can’t listen to audio books. Driving takes way too much attention. I have a set of driving podcasts which don’t need much attention and it doesn’t matter if I miss a bit
For me audiobooks makes the drive tolerable and enjoyable. I don’t find them distracting, rather I get distracted from them at times because of thoughts of work or needing to focus on dumb drivers around me.
I absolutely did this the other day. Right in the middle of a boring ass scene they casually dropped a huge plot point.
I’ve also missed stuff during uncomfortable parts and just let them go.
Sometimes this is me not solving the problem, sometimes it’s the show/podcast/audiobook having a boring/poorly explained pocket as a lead-up to something important.
quiet sound of me putting my jacket on to leave this person mid-film
This is why I despise those that constantly check their phone when watching something.
