I really do think my attention span has been shortened since I became an avid social-media user. I used to sit and read for hours upon hours. Now I do good to get through a TV episode. It's really quite pathetic to think about.

But what is interesting is that I've been thinking about this more and more since class- my attention has remained on the topic of its noticeably shorter span, which I find fascinating.  The other thing that really struck me as odd is that I don't want let my attention to focus on certain things for too long. Like serious thinking. I don't want to evaluate my own actions and hold myself accountable. I don't want to start feeling emotions about things I deem "unnecessary".

But if I think about that, about what I find "unnecessary", I discover that the things I don't want to think about are the things I should absolutely be thinking about. That I absolutely should have emotions about. And my denial of myself these feelings is not terribly healthy. But at the same time, if I do think about them, and find myself in need of change... Well, that is why ultimately, whether I want to think about them or not, I do think about such things. Long and hard, and what I hope is thoroughly.

This seems to have gone a bit off topic, but I think this was important for me to explore with myself. Social media helps me to define myself and my viewpoints on certain topics (not that I see them and just adopt them as my own, but that they influence how I might specifically define it). And when the social media reveals a contradiction in my own beliefs, that is one of those things I don't want to think about but really should.