The heavy use of electronics rewires the brain. My understanding is that the brain becomes so habituated to the rapid fire input and then everything at normal speed becomes boring to people.
I’ve heard TV referred to as the plug in drug. And I would throw in the internet, too.
I still love to sit down with a good book, however.
All true. Along with that is the modern concept of an inbox. Social media, in a way, is kind of like going back to newspapers being the first thing people see to know what's going on. The ones who controlled the newspapers were the ones who controlled at least people's first impressions of the day.
Today, people in multiple generations are used to looking first at what's in their electronic "feed". In earlier days of the internet, before social media became a thing, people were more inclined to search for other opinions and other news sources. Now, lots of people have their favorite social media apps, each with a main "feed" or "inbox" type push to receive seemingly "news" type "information" as much as the user sees personal communications from friends. Enough so that a lot of people are too lazy to look up news from other sources besides what they've been wired to believe is the only sources they need.
Me too!
I do have an addiction to authoring software; and, that is like an addictive drug. I started programming in 1967 an have been doing that with intensity ever since.