What is your attention span and has it changed over your life?

Can you tolerate tweets?

Texts? Email? Articles? Sitcoms? TV Drama? Movies? Novels? Starting a business? Raising a child?

I used to read novels all the time. I followed a number of drama series and sitcoms on TV. I had subscriptions to at least six different journals, some daily, some weekly and some monthly. I read them all.

Now I can’t watch TV as an appointment. The ads drive me crazy. I also can’t read novels.

On the other end, I can’t stand tweets. They leave me utterly uninterested. I also don’t like Facebook status updates. They seem so trivial.

My attention span is about that for writing a fluther question or answer. I can read most fluther answers, although not a really long set of answers filled with long answers.

I can also read articles in magazines like the New Yorker, or online at Slate.com or The Huffington Post or most articles that people on fluther link to.

I recently discovered that I can watch TV on demand, so long as there are no ads. I won’t watch many Youtube videos if they are preceded by an ad.

I feel like my attention span has shortened in the last five years. But it’s not as short as some people’s. It’s not as long as I wish it were.