Amusing web view parodying the data-bleed overload of today's youth, from 5-minute-twitter-updates to a sea of cellphone pictures at parties of people posing like tools. Perhaps a transparent society is a society of trivialities?
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Among my undergrad friends, or from what I witnessed when tutoring teenagers for 2 1/2 years, that stuff doesn't drain much of their attention.
The real attention sponge is being constantly glued to their cell phones, reading or sending texts. It's non-stop.
However, maybe this just says that young people aren't allowed to be around each other as much these days -- they would be yammering face-to-face with their bffs if they could, rather than do it through texts, but parents today are paranoid about their kids being out and about.
So, lacking the freedom to roam around mostly unsupervised, they have to satisfy their need to keep tabs on the group through cell phones.
The medium for incessant yakking has surely changed, but I wonder if the total time per day spent yakking about nothing with friends has changed. Before texting, we used to blather for hours on landline phones, after all. And in person before that. But still -- killing lots of time, no matter how it was done.
If I had to bet, I'd say kids these days spend less time chatting -- it's more enjoyable face-to-face, or at least using voices, so you're less likely to want to stop.