TikTok show avg. attention span

Apparently some study came out this past week that was pretty impactful in terms of quantifying the negative impact on short form content. It’d be great to tell you about the study in more detail, but I got pretty bored while trying to read it (see what I did there).

This got me thinking about the worst culprits (like TikTok), what if there were a way for us to quantify the negative impact these applications have had by showing our average attention span. My gut says this would be depressing but also not have that much of an impact, who’s to say though.

I don’t see an app designed to waste people’s time showing people how much it is frying their brains, but it could be something that lives on the apple health layer. Interesting potentially mechanism to gamify, though I don’t know how one reliably quantifies this.

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