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[–] phillaholic@lemm.ee 92 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Maybe a hot take, but this goes for everyone. I see older people that can’t stay off their phones, and have little to no ability to multitask while doing it.

[–] Wanderer@lemm.ee 72 points 8 months ago (6 children)

Nobody can multi task. I wish this stupid myth would die.

[–] MojoMcJojo@lemmy.world 28 points 8 months ago (2 children)

"I'm good at multitasking" is just another way of saying you can't focus on one thing at a 🐿️ SQUIRREL!

[–] Snowpix@lemmy.ca 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] Halcyon@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 8 months ago

I'm not easily distrac... - oh, wow, a blue car!

[–] BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Multi-tasking should rightly be called “context switching”. Your brain is alternating its focus between two things in extremely quick succession.

[–] uis@lemm.ee 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Can I tune my brain scheduler?

[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 3 points 8 months ago

Yes, sadly it is running in Windows Task Scheduler.

[–] Sho@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Can't upvote this enough, I have had ppl literally bragging to me about their ability to "multi-task" 🙄

[–] uis@lemm.ee -2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Or you hate when ppl can walk, talk and eat at same time

[–] Misconduct@lemmy.world 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Ew you talk with your mouth full

[–] uis@lemm.ee 0 points 8 months ago

Ew you can't multitask

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 5 points 8 months ago

I have ADHD and have the opposite problem most of the time - I can't keep myself on one thing.

[–] SendMePhotos@lemmy.world -2 points 8 months ago

What about the left brain right brain simultaneous use, like people drawing two pieces of art at once or like how I can walk and be on my phone while being completely aware of my surroundings.

Sometimes my brain is thinking in one space and my body is doing another. Like I hit auto pilot and stepped away from the cabin, yet the plane is still flying.

[–] mods_are_assholes@lemmy.world -3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Its pretty funny how people will take a single low-population college paper over the evidence of their own experience.

I multitask daily, I have to it's part of my job.

[–] Goodman@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

It depends on the definition I guess. I would consider driving a car to be multitasking. But doing three different office tasks on my laptop feels more like context switching as someone dubbed it here.

But I'm just some dude it's not like I've read any papers on it but that's what it feels like for me.

[–] Apollo@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 months ago

Sure, it's one study.

I could go on, this is hardly an area lacking in research.

[–] SpacetimeMachine@lemmy.world 34 points 8 months ago (2 children)

That should be no surprise. They have been designed to be purposefully addictive.

[–] Routhinator@startrek.website 20 points 8 months ago

What should have been a tool was designed to be a trap, because greed.

[–] uis@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago

That would be TV

[–] uis@lemm.ee 0 points 8 months ago

Where I live older people don't know how turn on phone. They watch tv instead. Those who have some sanity left also go outside, sit on benches, talk with each other and keep your bike from being stolen.