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by pragmatic 5754 days ago
I think you nailed it. The sites they tend to visit are VERY important to them. Do you remember being a kid? The video game you were playing or movie you watched last night had the higher priority in your life. You don't have to think about too much.

As an adult, you have an amazing branching tree of knowledge and interests. You have to track so much information that everything has to become less important.