Most of the population is to busy with their lives, or don't want to know the truth because it is too stressful. They use confirmation bias to seek news that tells them what they want to hear. (4)
The majority of the population don't want to know the details and look at events just at the surface. 59% of people only read headlines. (5) hal.inria.fr/hal-01281190
Of the 41% who do dive deeper than the headline and actually click on an article's link, 55% of them read the article for 15 seconds or less. (6) blog.bufferapp.com/55-visitors-re…
What does this mean? (7)
We live in the age of skimming. Due to the rewiring of the brain from spending hours on our devices, people have developed really short attention spans. People lost 30% from 2000 to 2013. (8)
It is 2018. The vast majority of Americans – 95% – now own a cellphone of some kind. The share of Americans that own smartphones is now 77%, up 42% since Pew Research Center’s first survey of smartphone ownership conducted in 2011. (10)
In 2018, people spend over 5 hours a day on mobile devices. About 86% of that time was taken up by smartphones, meaning 4 hours, 15 minutes is spent on smartphones every day. (11) flurrymobile.tumblr.com/post/157921590…
But thats just mobile phones. (12)
In 2018, people spend over 11 hours per day watching videos, browsing social media and swiping their lives away on their tablets and smartphones. That’s up from nine hours, 32 minutes just 4 years ago. (13)
That means people spend nearly half their day plugged in to technology, and unplugged from reality. (14)
Its 2021, let me repeat, "unplugged from reality" and reality has consequences. (15)
Reality... (16)
Nearly 3 years later people spend 12 hours and twenty per day watching videos, browsing social media and swiping their lives away on their devices. #HALFYOURLIFE. (17)