Reels - Is it a reason for Cognitive Decline

Reels - Is it a reason for Cognitive Decline

In good olden days, our movies were of three and half hours with thirty songs - and in fact we enjoyed them. It got reduced as two hours, then we preferred short films of twenty minutes and now in the era of Reels with ninety seconds. This is the Movie Metamorphosis we had gone through.

As Reels are the current trend in social media at present, the creators are forced to show anything and everything in ninety seconds. Mostly the Reels are made just to attract and retain the audience throughout more than the quality of the content.

"Reels Culture" makes us  -
-  to expect anything shown to conclude by ninety seconds with an ultra short attention span
- want something new every ninety seconds
- need interesting content of your taste and flavour instantly otherwise to skip for next one (with poor patience..)
In fact, Reels makes our brain to have an "hasty processing of information" with fast transition from one information to another - leads to "sensory overload" which affects the attention span, analytical ability and retention- the memory, thereby the important cognitive functions of our brain.