attention spam

Not even sure whether that's a typo or a pun

Tiktok emulates the advertising format as user-generated content.

On screens, I believe they are not a root cause, but contribute to the attention span problem. The reason is that they have limited real estate, and thus lend themselves to presenting information piecemeal. This leads to the user failing to get a big picture view, and new generations who use only phones may eventually atrophy the capability to even form a big picture. Small screens are effectively blinders for the modern brain.

I'm pretty good at blocking out a lot of advertisements, as in never load/watch content without them, but still feel like my attention span has been zapped since I was younger.

To me it definitely feels like phones in general are the big issue. Something you can quickly pick up for a little dopamine hit whenever you want.

The irony is that user-created content contains just as much disinformation whether it's on corporate social media or the good kind.