Web Addiction can Decrease Attention Span

I have already spoke about how TV can lower attention span but it seems as if surfing the Internet can have the same effect.

"If you are spending too much time on the internet and are concerned that it is affecting your concentration, you are not alone.

"The addictive nature of web browsing can leave you with an attention span of nine seconds - the same as a goldfish."

"'Our attention span gets affected by the way we do things,' says Ted Selker, an expert in the online equivalent of body language at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the US."

See Turning into Digital Goldfish