We are subjected to an excessive bombardment of information. Imaging/Ravi Jadhav

Earlier last week, WhatsApp launched a new feature that lets users send status messages as a photograph or video, which gets deleted after 24 hours. Soon, you can expect an hourly uploadable-deletable ‘status’ in keeping with diminishing attention spans. Psychiatrist Anjali Chhabria and clinical psychologist Sonali Gupta believe reduced attention spans are a reality built over the past decade. The cause is addiction to gadgets with one thing in common: screens. The light emitted from any screen causes an addiction, while also distracting users. Contradictory? Not really.