Are you becoming a digital goldfish

Are you becoming a digital goldfish
Goldfish have pretty boring lives , so maybe it's a good thing they can only concentrate for nine second! But according to new research, humans are becoming like goldfish. Our attention span (The amount of time we concentrate on one thing) is getting shorter.. and it's all because if technology.
"We move quickly from one site to another on the web, ' says Doctor ted selker, a computer scientist from Massachusetts, " and we are losing the ability to concentrate With millions of websites to choose from, the attention span of the average internet user is just seconds. There are other digital distractions too: email, instant messaging and quickie movies on websites like shortspan.come.
Some people are worried about the effect on young people. "You need time to understand and think about what you read" says secondary school teacher Julia Wood, from London. "Young people move from one website to another all the time and their brains become full of useless information but there is no time to make sense of it. l am trying to persuade my pupils to read more books, so that they concentrate on one subject for longer.