According to a fascinating infographic entitled “How Social Media is Ruining Our Minds,” over the course of the last ten years the average attention span has dropped from 12 minutes to a staggeringly short 5 minutes [Editor: Updated to 5 minutes; the infographic has an incorrect statistic]. As a person deeply ensconced in this connected age my experience shows this to be true. These days, we give a YouTube video just a few seconds to determine if it’s worth it. So what else does social media and technology affect within our minds?
Some people CAN drive and talk on a cellphone simultaneously, says a University of Utah study. It’s a very small percentage, 2.5%, but some people are capable of it. That also means that 97.5 percent of people cannot! The problem is that the rest of us cannot manage multiple physical tasks and as a result endanger everyone else with the need to talk while driving, or send text messages. Some people are even 