Why People Read Less And Less
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Re: Why People Read Less And Less
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1. To busy with texting and using smartphones,
2. To busy on the computer
3. Don't want to feel that their friends think they are weird
4. Children today think reading is not important and dumb
5. Adults are to busy with work and kids that they feel they do not have time
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People read hundreds of tweets, headlines, messages shared on social media, but all this stuff just fills their brain with mostly unimportant information.
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I completely agree, I constantly see people "trolling" Facebook, not actually reading anything. Its a sad commentary.Ravenmount wrote:I think Internet is a big part of the decrease in book reading, too. People read all the time, but they are reading short posts on social media and short articles on web-version news sites, and lots of other spoon-fed content online that is never presented with the text-density of a typical book. After doing Internet all day, books may feel particularly long and hard to digest.
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I think that there are three kinds of people:
1. People who don't read at all. Magazines, websites and text books don't count. 2. Some people read a little before bedtime to help them sleep or if there really is nothing else to do. 3. And then there are people who actually read because they want to read and they make the time to read. These people read often, like every day and usually carry a book with them everywhere.
I am the #3 type and I am so happy I have my books.
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