Tiffany Bond  🦞 🇺🇸Verified account

It seems like the public's memory of current events lasts only as long as the next tweet. Has it always been this fleeting? (Gen Xer here.)

Anecdotally, I see a divide. The internet wasn't a thing when I was a kid, we had to read books, visit libraries, etc for our work.

Now there is a massive amount of info available immediately, much of which is not reliable. Short attention span & fake news are related.

Less demand to take the time to read pages, so fewer reports with detail & quality are produced. It ends up with everyone grabbing short,

One paragrah consumption, sometimes with a photo...it isn't very memorable, credible or easy to verify sources (if there even are sources).