Are We Not Paying Attention and Just Skimming In Life

Hey Fellow Jessanthians

Lend me your eyes and ears and for fuck's sake pay attention for once! The internet has overloaded our brains with access to the information and our brains are not properly designed to handle this overstimulation.

As a result, people are skimming details and then using their minds to fill in the rest because like I've said before if people are able to get away with it once, they're going to keep doing it until they get burned.

Content skimming is a problem that affects publishers and traditional social media sites where revenue is tied to how many times the page is loaded and ads are served while engagement is measured by algorithms based on the volume of likes and comments, not quality.

We see it on steemit too, even I am guilty of it. Commenting without reading the full context of the article or post. We can quickly pick up who are basically comment mining and those generic comments have been dealt with in some of the most savage ways by myself and other steemians, sometimes to hilarious effect.

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Start sweating the details

As the saying goes the devil is in the details and I think you need to get closer to the devil, play devils advocate and start sweating your double chin all over the details. The details are what make for great content, the details are what flesh out the story or the argument, the details are the whole damn point of any content.

Ignoring the details is the reason why we have so many arguments IRL and online, maybe if you took the time to read, understand or even ask about what you don't understand before triggering yourself into an opinion frenzy you might just get somewhere. You might just appreciate the time taken to go into detail and you might learn that 5 extra minutes of attention can save you from yourself and ruining your day by letting yourself be triggered by a situation you built up in your own head.

A little story to illustrate

A while back I was waiting outside a friend's flat for her to come out so we could go out. I was parked outside the building and had my phone in my hand clearly visible looking around for her and texting her without a response. While I was waiting and looking around a young lady decided to open the passenger side of my car and get in and I was like WTF are you doing? I don't know you? Are you hurt or in trouble and she's like no I thought you're my Uber driver?

I'm like you can see on the app what an Uber driver looks like, his name and the vehicle registration, like seriously you don't just go getting into peoples cars.

She apologized and walked off embarrassed but that's what happens when you don't look at the damn details and im not even talking about 1000 world article its 3 damn lines of detail that could land you in trouble, what if I was a psycho and you just got into my car, hello jackpot. Why do I have to stalk my victims if they're just walking into traps with their faces fixated on a phone?

For people who spend so much time looking at that screen, we pay very little attention to what actually goes on and is displayed across the pixels.

So what do you think? Half arsed answers will be ignored!

Have your say

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So have at it my Jessies! If you don't have something to comment, simply comment "I am a Jessie."

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