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Attentionitis – Why Shorter Is Better
At-ten-tio-ni-tis is a spreading disease on the internet that impairs a person’s ability to focus on a single webpage. This can be acquired by only a few hours of surfing or a few minutes hanging out on video sites like Youtube.
Answer the three questions below and after that you’ll find out if you caught this spreading disease…
Question number one
How much soil is there in a hole measuring one meter by one meter by one meter? (Answer below)
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None, it’s a hole!
Question number two
A man dressed all in black is walking down a country lane. Suddenly a large black car without any lights on comes round the corner and screeches to a halt.
How did the driver know there was a man in the road?
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It was daylight!
Question number three
A mute person goes into a shop and wants to buy a toothbrush. By imitating the action of brushing his teeth he successfully expresses himself to the shopkeeper and the purchase is done.
Next, into the shop comes a blind man who wants to buy a pair of sunglasses, how does he indicate what he wants?
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He would simply ask.
What did you get?
If you have answered the three questions correctly then you are clear of Attentionitis but beware this is a contagious disease you might catch it from suffering patients.
If you have answered only one or two correctly then you are in the stage 2 of this disease, go get some tea to calm down and concentrate.
If you haven’t answered any of the questions right, I’m sorry but I can’t do anything for you, just read on.
Attentionitis everywhere!
When I logged in to Google Analytics a while ago, I checked one of my sites and saw a huge traffic spike yesterday. Looking at the traffic sources, Stumble Upon topped the leader board. Unfortunately, the bounce rate was horrible and the average time spent on the site is less than a minute! Imagine that.
A recent study was also conducted that people watching Youtube videos judge the whole video on the first 20 seconds. If those first seconds sucks, they’ll switch to the other video, if it’s entertaining then they’ll finish it.
With that said, we can declare that most people online has Attentionitis.
Cure?
Nope, at the moment, there’s no world wide cure going on so if you are selling or want to give a certain information…
“Do it shorter because less is more. Speed matters.”
On a side note, Blaise Pascal, a French mathematician and philosopher once said to his friend in a letter “I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had time to make it shorter.”
But shorter is harder.
Carl Ocab is one of the most successful teenage bloggers on the net. But remarkably, Carl was just 13 years old when he rose to fame with his hugely popular “make money online” website: www.carlocab.com
Hi, my name is Carl Ocab or as many call me, the “Kidblogger”. I’m a 16-year old kid from the beautiful archipelago Philippines.
May 19, 2008
9:50 pm
This post was too long. I didn’t finish reading it.
Actually I did, because I’m a sucker for quizzes. The point being, if I’m hooked at the beginning, I’ll stick with it longer. I don’t think people are short on attention — they just need something to arrest their attention and focus it, which is not easy to do. I’m thinking of changing my landing page into a hypno-wheel.
Thanks for the post — good reading.
May 20, 2008
8:06 am
This post has been featured in FullTiltBlogging.com’s Daily Blog Summary today. Great post!
May 20, 2008
2:30 pm
I am sure that I don’t suffer from Attentionitis. When I’m overloaded with too much information I usually shut down the PC and do something else. If I can’t focus, I usually don’t do it. Anyway great post.
May 20, 2008
3:24 pm
Great post carl! I got 2 right :D
I think the only way you can successfully have long posts on your blog is if you grab their attention in the first paragraph.
May 21, 2008
2:30 pm
haha… interesting question in ur article.
when u got something interesting in ur article, no matter long or short the article is, people might still finish reading it.
good luck~
May 21, 2008
5:48 pm
I only got one right. and that was because I heard of it before. hehehe
May 23, 2008
4:10 am
Oopppsss I got all the three wrong :( guess i am infected with the disease. Very nice post carlo. The content really matters….long or short..but i guess psycologically ppl tend to read shorter articles than one flowing thru pages ;)
May 23, 2008
10:36 pm
funny question XD
looking forward for more funny stuff in your blog.
May 25, 2008
11:51 am
I blew each question but when I asked others they got a few correct. I guess I was just lame.
May 27, 2008
12:12 am
I only got one right, but whatever. your site looks pretty cool. Hey I wanted to know if you could check out my site called:healthlifeandmoney.blogspot.com. Eveybody take a look at it and make sure to stay updated becusae I will continue to add more info soon.
May 27, 2008
5:34 pm
Oh no, all of my answers were wrong! What’s worse than a long post is a long post made out of one large block of text. Some people just can’t break things into paragraphs.
June 1, 2008
11:25 am
I didn’t answer any of the questions! Although it’s funny because I just wrote a similar topic a few days ago. Don’t Stuff Your Readers With Too Much
August 7, 2008
9:43 am
K.I.S.S……keep it simple short…..i agree to this….