Topic: Study: Most Americans suffer from ‘Digital Amnesia’ - page 3. (Read 4940 times)

'We need to get young people off their phones and back into our bars to actually socialise or we're all going to go out of business'







Tinder is frequently blamed for the death of romance and the general decline of Western civilisation, but now something’s been added to the list of things it has apparently ruined you might not have thought of: live music.

In a Facebook post, the owner of Cherry Bar in Melbourne Australia recalled a recent conversation:

“I had an interesting chat last night at Yah Yah's with another Melbourne Promoter. We were discussing the fact that 2015 was a tough year…He posed a theory I had never heard before:

“'You've forgotten the most important factor of all. Tinder has destroyed the live music and pub scene. First, look at Grinder and the gay scene. Grindr came two years before Tinder. Commercial Road Prahran used to be a thriving late night gay hot spot. Now, it's dead as a door nail. It's over. Now we are seeing the same thing with Tinder. This is how young people "pick up" these days. I see them in the office. They're on it all the time. They're not going out to clubs and pubs to pick up anymore. They're just picking up their phones. Tinder is killing off clubs and pubs all over Melbourne and Australia. And when they take their dates out for the first time, they try to impress them with some chic dining experience, rather than a rowdy live music experience. I'm telling you, Tinder has alot to answer for. It's bleak out their for club owners. These are dark and challenging times. We need to get young people off their phones and back into our bars to actually socialise or we're all going to go out of business.’ Mind blown.”


http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/tinder-is-killing-pubs-clubs-and-live-music-venues-promoter-claims-10460225.html

Constantly checking your mobile phone can lead to 'cognitive failures'


Whether sitting on a train or having dinner at a restaurant, many people find it hard to stop fiddling with their mobile phones – firing off a never-ending stream of Facebook, Instagram and Twitter posts.

If this online hyperactivity looks exhausting, it’s no surprise to discover that these high-frequency internet users find it much more difficult to pay attention to what’s going on around them than the rest of us – even when they are not consumed by the web.

New research finds that the most frequent mobile phone and internet users are the most likely to be distracted, for example by being prone to missing important appointments and daydreaming while having a conversation.

In the first study of its kind, an academic from Leicester’s De Montfort University has found that the more times a person uses the internet or their mobile phone, the more likely they are to experience “cognitive failures”.

These include a whole range of blunders, and a general lack of awareness of a person’s surroundings that stretches as far as people forgetting why they have just gone from one part of the house to the other says Dr Lee Hadlington, author of the research.

The study draws the same conclusions among users of mobile phones without internet access as with it – suggesting that mobile phone conversations and surfing the web are similarly associated with distraction.


But whether the most digitally active people are more distracted because their excessive online activity makes them jittery or hyperactive, or whether it is the other way around – that they are more drawn to these activities because they naturally have short “attentional control” – is unclear at this stage, he says.

Dr Hadlington does have a theory, however: that it is a mix of the two. In other words, those people already suffering from short attention spans are drawn to the distractions of modern technology, which makes it even harder for them to pay attention to their surroundings.

His research has been published in the journal Computers in Human Behaviour. He is now working on research to answer this question more comprehensively and to look for ways to solve the problem.

“This is a very underexamined area and a very important one. We are using technology on a daily basis but we don’t understand its effect on us,” Dr Hadlington said.

“We don’t know what’s actually happening to our cognition when we are using this technology and that’s the important thing. What we do know from this research is that there are some statistically significant numbers of people who say they use the internet or their phone a lot and who experience cognitive failures,” he added.


The study asked people a series of questions to determine whether they experienced certain types of “blunders” – defined as factors relating to their ability to focus, physical blunders such as bumping into things, and memory.

The study was conducted among 107 men and 103 women between the ages of 18 and 65, who spent an average of 22.95 hours a week online.


http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/constantly-checking-your-mobile-phone-can-lead-to-cognitive-failures-10458210.html

We are less and less using the sound of our voice to communicate with each other. One has to add that variable to the Digital Amnesia equation...

Before most people were literate, streets and places were described visually, not  numerically.

"Go down until the road forks, by the Boar's Head Inn, turn right and at the bottom of the hill you'll see the Skinned Cat - that's the place to get your hides tanned."

And there were boars heads and maybe, skinned cats outside these places.

Now fast forward to phone numbers.  The smart phone returns the paradigm to it's natural state - click on the picture of your friend, the thing connects to him or her.   The NUMBER is a carry forward of an intermediary technological necessity, not a priori a necessity.

So the argument may be valid, but can't be proved in the context of phone numbers.

I don’t blame anyone these days ,You have to choose what you will focus your attention and memory on. dozens of cell phone numbers, passwords for half a dozen computers and dozens of websites.

You must have seen these people on your travels they are everywhere, buses, trains , in town shopping some are  just stumbling around looking down into faceache twatter and other social sites, at home they are watching  talk shows that talk about people, they are deemed to be laughed at by the audience, then you have media with stupid articles about movie stars ( Oscars are the worst) self appreciation society, this country that country done this, saying it as though it was true... lies to the public 24/7 and yet  99% believe in all this crap.
People need to learn what is really going on, although I am no conspiracy theorist, I know we are lied to on a daily basis.
After over twenty years of not reading/ watching western media rantings and non investigative journalism, especially by some college grad who thinks they knows it all. (Told what to write) I think I have been awake for quite some time now.

Zombies= people.

Hey! That's nice. Is there an app for my iphone..? iHerbs?

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Here we go again. Please don't start with the vaccination controversies. People really need to stop the nonsense related to anti-vaccination and they need to stop going off topic. Not getting a vaccine puts other people at risk besides you. Anyhow we should stick to the topic.

Exactly. I've already stated that there are people who know a lot of numbers, and they are (sometimes much smarter) people who can barely remember two. It isn't just about phone numbers, but rather memorization.
It all comes down to how you search, process and store data in your brain.

The mind is rusting by other things like mercury and aluminium from vaccines, not by internet.

Oh i see,but you know actually internet has changed my life especially when i've got a something like homework or anything  i could not using my own brain to solved it and than i used google for everything and that habit make me feel lazy to think smart,i want google i want instant just it

It is not about just remembering phone numbers... It is about how the mind is rusting away faster, bit by bit....

this is a nice aricle i think iam not suffering a digital amnesia because more than year i still remember my own number my mothers number and still recognize a few numbers of my friend i think its depend on you do you want to memorize that number or not

Yes exactly. Everyone who overuse the technology today. Over working using bright screens and staring at it for a long time. It is the reason why so many people suffer from digital amnesia. Also , people now depend on technology so much that they have developed these kinds of disorders that never existed about five to six decades ago. probably the reason is too much dependence on it.

This.

Also, what happened to the good old days, when you had limited time at a terminal - enough to punch in your program, run it and see the results. Any debugging was done later "off-line" on paper or in your head.

And that is why all my posts here are so critical to the bitcoiners' brain. Free neurons workout...


 

I think the reasons why this happen is that firstly everything is accessible very easily nowadays. People get lazy and they find it much easier to use their smartphones instead of remembering these kind of things. Secondly, it is a fact that our brain slows down when we are indulged in watching tv or using the internet . It is simple. The more you use your brain, the more it's capability to memorize and rationalize and analyze accelerates.

There is also the "digital tsoutsounopaixia"...

They're afraid of being disconnected and there is nothing wrong with not replying when you're busy with something else. I guess many don't understand this. It is usually very boring for me to go with them anywhere.
Well I guess it could be a mild amnesia for me. I guess there isn't really a way to prevent it, however I'm fighting it. As soon as I think about X, and I know that I've looked it up before but I can't remember, I do it again. I look it up again, even though the information isn't needed at that point and I try to remember it.

I think you are right, when I was having dinner last night with my friends, most of them always looked their phones, and they prefer to reply a chat in their social media accounts than talk with me    So, are you suffer from Digital Amnesia with your 'smart'phone?