That should be no surprise. They have been designed to be purposefully addictive.
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phillaholic@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Maybe a hot take, but this goes for everyone. I see older people that can’t stay off their phones, and have little to no ability to multitask while doing it.
SpacetimeMachine@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Routhinator@startrek.website 8 months ago
What should have been a tool was designed to be a trap, because greed.
uis@lemm.ee 8 months ago
That would be TV
uis@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Where I live older people don’t know how turn on phone. They watch tv instead. Those who have some sanity left also go outside, sit on benches, talk with each other and keep your bike from being stolen.
Wanderer@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Nobody can multi task. I wish this stupid myth would die.
MojoMcJojo@lemmy.world 8 months ago
“I’m good at multitasking” is just another way of saying you can’t focus on one thing at a 🐿️ SQUIRREL!
Snowpix@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
SQUIRREL? WHERE?!
Halcyon@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
I’m not easily distrac… - oh, wow, a blue car!
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mods_are_assholes@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Your statement is just another way of saying ‘Since I can’t do it, nobody can, and people who claim to are liars’.
You do know that skilled chess masters can run multiple games at once, right?
Apollo@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
They don’t make a move in each game at the same time though, the moves are still made separately and sequentially. Almost like they are alternating between tasks…
MojoMcJojo@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Fair point. I hadn’t thought of it that way.
BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.org 8 months ago
Multi-tasking should rightly be called “context switching”. Your brain is alternating its focus between two things in extremely quick succession.
uis@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Can I tune my brain scheduler?
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
Yes, sadly it is running in Windows Task Scheduler.
Sho@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Can’t upvote this enough, I have had ppl literally bragging to me about their ability to “multi-task” 🙄
uis@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Or you hate when ppl can walk, talk and eat
Misconduct@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Ew you talk with your mouth full
rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
I have ADHD and have the opposite problem most of the time - I can’t keep myself on one thing.
mods_are_assholes@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Its pretty funny how people will take a single low-population college paper over the evidence of their own experience.
I multitask daily, I have to it’s part of my job.
Goodman@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
It depends on the definition I guess. I would consider driving a car to be multitasking. But doing three different office tasks on my laptop feels more like context switching as someone dubbed it here.
mods_are_assholes@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Well I guess anything can mean whatever you want with that statement.
Good luck understanding objective reality tho. But at lest you’ll never be wrong or be required to call your assumptions into question.
Must be nice.
Apollo@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Sure, it’s one study.
I could go on, this is hardly an area lacking in research.
SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 8 months ago
What about the left brain right brain simultaneous use, like people drawing two pieces of art at once or like how I can walk and be on my phone while being completely aware of my surroundings.
Sometimes my brain is thinking in one space and my body is doing another. Like I hit auto pilot and stepped away from the cabin, yet the plane is still flying.