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The snippet generation: Long-form entertainment is out and snack-sized media is in for the next generation of kids, teens and young adults. (www.axios.com)

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Driving the news: English professors across the country say college students are struggling to finish books, The Atlantic reports. That’s in part because middle and high school teachers have noted kids’ attention problem and started assigning poems, short stories or excerpts of books instead of full works.

Kids shows are getting shorter. Episodes of Bluey, one of the most popular kids shows, are about seven minutes long on average, Vulture notes. Pop songs are simpler, shorter and more repetitive to give them a better chance of going viral on TikTok and Instagram in snippet form, Forbes reports.

Zoom out: Studies have linked excessive screen time to problems focusing in kids.

All of us — including kids and teens — have a world of entertainment at our fingertips, and we can just keep scrolling if something doesn’t grab us.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

I notice what used to be a 90 minute movie is now a 10 part series
I don't remember being assigned entire books in grade or middle school [70's]
The assignments were a chapter or two