Do you ever go to google to search for something, only to forget what it was?

[alarimer]

This happened to me just now. I swear I am losing it. This happens so frequently that I worry there really is something wrong with me. Or I am just easily distracted.

[F4lconF16]

1. Umm..

Does it count if it's not google, but literally every other aspect of my life?

I was halfway through my sentence in my ISO meeting last night and I completely forgot where I was headed

[alarimer]

3. No, it happens to me all the time too.

So many things right on the tip of my tongue but my brain can't quite there.

[pscot]

2. Google knows what you want

[seveneyes]

4. Information overload

Bandwidth exceeded, pause and pop the stack. Time is the only infinite limit to everything.

Soak, rinse and repeat.

[alarimer]

5. My bandwidth has been exceeded today, that's for sure.

But now I've remembered what I came online for this time.

[olddots]

6. I forgot your guestion

[Skittles]

7. you want I should kick your easily-distracted ass, alarimer?

I WILL MAKE YOU REMEMBER WHAT IT WAS; yes INDEED

[UTUSN]

8. Mostly the opposite for me: I can't think of a word/whatever and google and voila!1 n/t

[pinboy3niner]

9. I googled "What the hell did I come here to search for?"

The first result was a wikiquote from 'End of Days.'

[NJCher]

10. I've been studying this problem for a long time

I was going to write a book on it, but fortunately, this guy did it for me:

http://www.wnyc.org/story/curing-culture-distraction/#commentlis

There is a solution, and it's a rather lovely, engaging one: go outside, spend some time with the flowers, the trees, the birds, and hopefully, if you have a cat or a dog, with them, too.

I've experimented with it, and it works.




Cher

[displacedtexan]

11. Oh, hell yes.

Makes you think you should pay more attention to those drug company Alzheimers commercials, doesn't it? You know, the ones with side effects like "new or worsening heart failure," death or death-like symptoms?

[pipi_k]

12. sigh...

Constantly.

Every single aspect of my life.

Especially when I'm trying to cook. I hate to cook anyway, and it's getting worse because I often find myself standing in the middle of my kitchen in this damned FOG not knowing what the hell I'm doing and what I need to do next.

Where did I put the pot holders?

OMG I forgot to turn the stove on and now the vegies aren't going to be cooked in time

OMG I forgot to turn the stove OFF and I could have started a major fire if I slapped a pot holder down on the burner without looking first.

I meant to make XXX for dinner but forgot and made ZZZ instead.


It's seriously pissing me off.

I want someone to come cook for me.

[Ron Obvious]

13. All the time

I came here to respond, but I already forgot what I was going to say.