Question of the Day, July 11, 2010

[Jark212]

No, I've always had a short attention span...

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

Technically I should have said yes, but not the way they think.

I asked my parents about this once, and they confirmed that when I started gaming was when my attention span actually got better, and I started focusing on things for a worrying amount of time for an eight year old.

Indeed, same here. Away from the computer, I have the attention span of ...ooh...a butterfly...

 

[child of lileth]

I think it might with some people, but I haven't noticed it one way or the other with me. Then again, I started when I was 3-years-old. So I have no way of knowing for sure.

 

[Enzeru92]

I think it does a little I mean it helps me concentrate more but then again it made me concentrate on the wrong things like gaming or gaming and on occasion online gaming and of course mmo's..... i think u get the picture...

 

[Yureina]

Perhaps a little, but I know how to deal with it.

 

[mew4ever23]

Not at all. If anything, gaming makes you more aware of what's going on around you. I do tend to mute out reality while playing though.

 

[Kapol]

I have to say it had a part in giving me a horrible attention span, but the main reason is because I grew up with 2 TVs in my room. One for gaming and one for television. And they'd both almost always be on when I was at home. To top it off, I still have that same problem with two computers and a HD TV in my room that are always on now.

 

[William Dickbringer]

A little. I can get into a game yet still knowing whats going on around me and know if some one talks to me.

this is the same exact thing for me it's when I put on headphones that when you lose me

 

[Kouen]

Not really i can pull myself away from the keyboard and mouse / Controller

 

[Canadamus Prime]

I don't know, my attention span has always been somewhat bizarre so it's hard to say.

 

[Jared]

I think if anything it has aided mine...I take in all the little details, and, always seem to catch information others dont

 

[chromewarriorXIII]

Yes, but in a positive way. I can focus on something for much longer since I started playing video games. Admittedly, the subject has to be at least somewhat interesting but at least I can focus on it.

 

[Denamic]

Where's the "I have no idea" option?
Even if I had trouble paying attention, I'd have no evidence that it had anything to do with gaming.
I don't really have any before and after references, as I've- ooh, shiny.

 

[sms_117b]

My attention span has been increasing since I started playing video games.

 

[Catalyst6]

Oddly enough, *one* game doesn't effect my attention span, but having *multiple* games do. If it's one game then I'll sit and play it for hours on end. If I have multiple games (paycheck, Christmas, whatever) then I'll be more ADD than a middle-class kid in a candy store.

This also applies to school and work and such. Having one game will allow me to drop it and get to work, but multiples are just too tempting...

 

[flightofeternity]

Thats ridicul- oh look, a bird!

 

[Nimbus]

I've been gaming as long as I can remember. How would I know?

 

[Rakkana]

If it does I don't care. Gaming > attention span.

 

[Eruanno]

I don't know what you're talking ab-... oooh shiny.