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10/21/2019

69 Comments

Are attention spans better or worse than they've been in the past? Explain your opinion.

69 Comments

Eliza

10/21/2019 01:11:58 pm

I think that attention spans have gotten worse because of all of the distractions we have.

Kendra

10/21/2019 01:12:39 pm

That’s kind of what I said.

Trishelle

10/21/2019 01:13:13 pm

That’s what I pretty much said!

Ele

10/21/2019 01:19:29 pm

Yes, I agree

Kendra

10/21/2019 01:12:13 pm

I think that they are probably worse because people can get distracted easily and they are thinking about their virtual world that they have on their phones.

Eliza

10/21/2019 01:13:30 pm

I like the way you said that

Trishelle

10/21/2019 01:13:35 pm

Yes, that is true.

Nathan

10/21/2019 01:18:16 pm

Phones definitely distract us

Cade

10/21/2019 01:20:18 pm

I agree that we’re starting to care about what’s on our phones more than anything else.

Carson

10/21/2019 01:20:23 pm

Yea I agree with that.

Erik

10/22/2019 01:12:47 pm

I agree people get too distracted on their phones

Trishelle

10/21/2019 01:12:22 pm

Attention spands have gotten worse because we tend to not pay attention when we don’t like what we’re doing.

Eliza

10/21/2019 01:13:56 pm

Yeah your right.

Hailey

10/21/2019 01:14:58 pm

I agree that whenever we’re bored, we get distracted easily.

Carson

10/21/2019 01:19:19 pm

Good point.

Sienna Ealand

10/21/2019 01:13:02 pm

I think attention spans are far worse because of technology and we are always busy.

Kendra

10/21/2019 01:14:27 pm

I agree.

Olivia

10/21/2019 01:16:57 pm

Shorter thoughts with a big impact are what you have and I agree with what you say.

Ady

10/21/2019 01:20:18 pm

👍

Madeline

10/21/2019 01:21:08 pm

I agree we can get busy and technology can distract us

Megan

10/21/2019 01:13:50 pm

I feel like attention spans have gotten worse over the years because now that we live in a fast paced society we expect everything to keep moving compared to the past how things were more slow paced.

Lizzie

10/21/2019 01:14:32 pm

This is a really good point.

Dakota James

10/21/2019 01:18:10 pm

I agree we are more fast paced and sometimes too much.

Lizzie

10/21/2019 01:14:01 pm

I feel that attention spans are worse because we have a lot of distractions like our phones. People can’t even focus to finish a full conversation without checking their phone.

Hailey

10/21/2019 01:14:32 pm

I agree that phones are a distraction.

Dakota James

10/21/2019 01:15:54 pm

Phones definitely distract us.

Micah

10/21/2019 01:19:40 pm

Amen to that

Ady

10/21/2019 01:19:45 pm

Definitely

Hailey

10/21/2019 01:14:01 pm

Attention spans are definitely worse now than they have been in the past. A phone ringing, a text buzzing, or a good song beginning to play in an ear can easily distract a person from whatever task they are trying to complete. And often times, we get distracted for much longer than it takes to simply reply to a text or answer a phone call. Distractions are all around us and we no longer have the strength to ignore them.

Lizzie

10/21/2019 01:14:50 pm

Very good thoughts.

Nathan

10/21/2019 01:18:47 pm

That’s true

Ele

10/21/2019 01:20:13 pm

Yes!

Janessa

10/21/2019 01:23:36 pm

I agree that now we can access those distractions easier, but there have always been those others things to do. They were just more creative in the past.

Dakota James

10/21/2019 01:15:20 pm

I feel that as a whole our attentions spans have weakened. This is because we have so much happening and so many things to do we forget to focus on one thing at a time. We used to not be so busy and have time to do one thing at a time. Not anymore

Olivia

10/21/2019 01:17:38 pm

I agree with your ideas.

Olivia

10/21/2019 01:15:29 pm

I honestly believe that it depends on the person. I have no doubt that throughout human existence there have been people that have short attention spans and people with longer spans. There have always been distractions that cause shorter attention spans, as humans are always advancing technology. In earlier times, books or black and white television could have been a distraction. Now it’s our phones, flat color tv’s, or even an event. I would say that modern society might have more unlimited distraction with all of our technology, though.

Cade

10/21/2019 01:18:53 pm

I agree that it depends on the person.

Jonah

10/21/2019 01:15:49 pm

Attention spans are worse nowadays. Because everything has become faster, we are used to having less patience. If our WiFi drops one bar we get agitated. We don’t use our attention span to wait for it to load. We go rerun the router. Every article we read has a hyperlink to click on to lead us away. Social media is just a couple clicks away from connecting with the world. Our phones are constantly being bombarded with notifications to follow.

Myah

10/21/2019 01:19:19 pm

We do get more impatient as well.

Tyler

10/21/2019 01:20:44 pm

Yah that’s sort of what I wrote

Nathan

10/21/2019 01:17:21 pm

Attention spans have definitely shrank. We are bombarded by so many things at once. It is a lot harder to focus on things especially things that are important ones.

Madeline

10/21/2019 01:19:55 pm

I agree

Keely

10/21/2019 01:21:16 pm

I agree it is harder to focus on more important things in our society today.

Micah

10/21/2019 01:21:33 pm

I like this

Tyler

10/21/2019 01:21:55 pm

That’s a good point

Micah Tolman

10/21/2019 01:17:27 pm

I think attention spans in our generation are shorter than they have been in the past. We have a lot more distractions than our ancestors used to. Most of these distractions come from our phone. I don’t know the true answer to this prompt, but you could discover the answer by doing a survey of the attention span of kids 50 years ago and kids today.

Myah

10/21/2019 01:20:37 pm

We do tend to be destructed by a lot of other things now.

Erik

10/21/2019 01:17:32 pm

I think that attention spans are getting shorter because of all the things we have to do. We also busy ourselves with distractions that also shorten our attention spans. Attention spans have been getting shorter because of all of the things going through our mind also.

Keely

10/21/2019 01:17:52 pm

I don’t think they’ve necessarily gotten worse, we’ve just shifted our attention to things that aren’t extremely important. We tend to go to our phones so much through out the day to get on social media to which we can spend 7+ hours on. It has become habit that usually takes up our attention span that could probably be directed at something more useful or worth our time.

Jonah

10/21/2019 01:19:50 pm

Actually that seems pretty true

Beth

10/21/2019 01:25:45 pm

I agree with that.

Boaz

10/21/2019 01:29:30 pm

The stuff that you are doing on the phone though encourages small attention spans. I don’t think it seeps into our lives too much but that depends more on the time you spend on what you spend it on. I am not sure though it would be interesting to learn how technology physically changes our brain

Jonah

10/21/2019 01:31:39 pm

Be a brain doctor.

Cade

10/21/2019 01:17:58 pm

Attention spans are worse now because instead of going outside and watching clouds pass, we stay inside while we look at our phones. We also can’t go outside without taking a selfie.

Jaylee

10/21/2019 01:18:21 pm

I think that they have gotten worse. I think we tend to get distracted by a lot of different things.

Tyler Hilton

10/21/2019 01:18:26 pm

I think that attention spans are getting shorter mostly because of technology. Many teens today rely on technology more than they rely on other people’s opinions. Some teens know that they can look up whatever they want on their phone so why would they have to listen to a teacher tell them what they already have easy access to.

Myah

10/21/2019 01:18:32 pm

I feel like it’s gotten worse because we get everything faster then before, so when we don’t get then we tend to get bored and lose interest.

Beth

10/21/2019 01:26:22 pm

I think we got bored easily too.

Janessa

10/21/2019 01:33:40 pm

I agree that we don’t like to wait. But society has never liked to wait. The only difference is that we can justify our impatience now because we have faster technology.

Carson

10/21/2019 01:18:37 pm

I think our attention spans have gotten shorter. This is also because we have started reading disgust versions of things. So we are used to using less time to do stuff.

Madeline

10/21/2019 01:18:59 pm

I would say that attention spans are worse now than they have been in the past. I say this because with so many distractions it makes it harder to focus on one thing. I also say this because we live in a world where you can procrastinate and get distracted easily without it affecting you to much but even a hundred years ago procrastination would have resulted in something being much harder than it could have been or would be now.

Boaz

10/21/2019 01:31:34 pm

It does make homework very hard

Ele

10/21/2019 01:19:12 pm

I believe that our attention spans have gotten worse, we lose focus of some of the important things. It depends on what it is, and what you are interested in. We have many more distractions now days.

Ady

10/21/2019 01:19:24 pm

Attention spans are becoming worse since we have gotten used to new things coming and going every day. Technology has also influenced this quite a bit since it occupys most of your time.

Beth

10/21/2019 01:19:34 pm

I don’t think that our attention spans are as good as they were in the past. We expect instant gratification and don’t like to wait for things. They are definitely worse than they were in the past.

Jonah

10/21/2019 01:24:41 pm

“We expect instant gratification”...well said. Very true.

Boaz

10/21/2019 01:20:07 pm

Very much holy cow worse. Mindless browsing of social media and passively watching TV has discouraged persistent thought. Instead we allow our subjective lens take take over our life as headlines outrage us just as quickly as pictures of homeless pets make us sad.

Janessa

10/21/2019 01:20:32 pm

I think it’s the same. There have always been distractions, even if now they are more tangible. The distractions may have changed, but procrastination and attention spans have not. Like marbles and video games.

Keely

10/21/2019 01:23:46 pm

I agree with that whole statement.

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