Almost 4.88 billion people use smartphones and on average we spend approximately 4 hours on them in a day out of which we spend more time on short-form videos, whether it could be YouTube Shorts, Instagram Reels, TikTok Reels, or other short videos.
Before short-form videos, people spent more time on messaging apps and long videos such as movies and series but these days watching short videos become a habit. We just scroll to another video within seconds whether we like it or not.
To increase engagement, the application opens with short videos if you open the YouTube app on your smartphone, the first page will be the short videos page because if users start scrolling shorts then it will be hard for them to close the application and that’s how YouTube will be able to show you more ads and will be able to promote more brands.
How do short-form videos badly impact the human mind?
When you start spending hours on short-form videos daily, you will lack emotions, lack of creativity, less thinking power and that is because with short-form videos human emotions change within seconds.
For example: If you watch a 2 hours movie then for those two hours you feel like, you are part of that movie, and you feel multiple emotions in the same movie, which usually depends on the genre of a movie like horror, adventure, romance, thriller and many other. But this doesn’t happen with short-form videos, you can’t be involved in a single reel for more than 60 seconds and after that, you scroll down.
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If you are watching some horror reel and after 60 seconds you scroll to comedy, then adventure, then prank video, then devotion, you have experienced so many emotions in a few minutes and that’s how it impacts the human mind. With time you will become emotionless and as you are the consumer for so long then you will not be able to produce anything new which means you will also lose your creativity and thinking power.
Stop spending too much time on short-form videos as soon as you can else it will impact your mind badly in the upcoming days.