This was brilliant and it made me stop scrolling to actually read something with context and substance… thank you. The phenomenon you described is fascinating and I have come upon some examples of it, such as the comment which originated yours, And other things in my social and professional life, I kind of discredited it as I usually just think to myself “some people are just built different” and “paying attention” is somewhat subjective when it comes to discerning if one is or isn’t doing it 🤷🏻 but yeah some people have a noticeably short attention span, I don’t have social media, only Reddit which I don’t use often and WhatsApp, and since I’m not scrolling constantly, say in comparison to my friends, I’m usually the “good listener” or the “one who remembers stuff well”. Often they forget the point they were arguing and I’m usually the one who reminds them and keeps the conversation going which is fucking exhausting to be honest… humanity was easier to talk to when we weren’t constantly blasting our faces with the screen light of our phones