Social Media Destroying Your Attention Span? Science Explains. #mattkelly #founder

21 Dec 2025 · 0 min

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Short excerpt of a YouTube conversation (Matthew Kelly and another speaker) discussing how TikTok and social media culture worsen attention spans. Speakers link rapid scrolling and quick dopamine rewards to widespread reduced focus, describing the effect colloquially as 'brain rot.'

I think it's exacerbated by TikTok and social media culture. Right. I think it literally probably gives people.
I was just gonna say, like, I don't have adhd, but I have extremely short attention span.
By scrolling and quick dopamine, it's basically turned everyone into brain rot. Right?
Yeah, it's so hard. But like, taking a blend like this does put you into flow state, like a bit more. You're just. You focus a bit more, like it does actually work.