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1 month ago@[email protected] @[email protected] I wonder how much damage smartphones, now being most people’s main interface to the world, have done to discourse and reading. I’ve heard that most people don’t own computers. And I know that trying to read any documents or longform articles on a phone is cumbersome and irritating. If someone sends me a link, I email it to myself and read on a real screen. Most people don’t have real screens… so they only read tweet length content. Have smartphones destroyed attention spans?
@[email protected] @[email protected] Yea, it’s funny - Twitter started out with the tiny character limit because of SMS. But then “micro” became a thing and we mistook a limitation for a feature… now we’re inflicting it on ourselves for no reason.