Wow that was interesting, well we should have less of that on this platform. Hopefully!!

If Accurate, that literary Reading decline is a scary drop in percentage.

Every year it seems Mike Judge's Movie "Idiocracy" becomes more familiar in western culture.

Aint that the truth, we can see by the comments we get that our post hasnt been read.

It just took me ~4 minutes to read your post. And I have yet to follow any of the links.

And this is the issue I have with voteBOTS.
What was the point of you typing the post if it was not actually read?
Why didn't I use a CommentBOT instead of spending 2-3mins?

Better yet why don't we get some AuthorBOTS to scan the net for great info, and write great interesting articles (with perfect grammar etc) for the CommentBOTS to make comments on and the VoteBOTS can then vote on them?

We can all go to the beach! yippee.

or wait..... maybe we want a SOCIAL site, with SOCIAL interactions.

But that would require HUMANS with a desire for a SOCIAL site.
 
The human race has been dumbed down to the attention span of a "HEADLINE" by social media. Simple info overload TL;DR style.

If we want social to be better & more social we need to encourage it to be so, rather than accepting a 140char max input / reading criteria

Ban the voteBOTS would be a great start IMHO

Actually this is true, 
And its hard to get attention to people what they want!

tl:dr 
;)

Everyone now wants everything that is going on right away, some even assume they have understood the content of an article just by reading the title alone, in general this is very contrary to the vision of the creator, imagine if your post dikomentari origin by followers, when they do not even read your article, and this is a dilemma

Honestly, speed reading needs to be a skill that's taught and developed early on as it would definitely help in todays culture. We have access to thousands upon thousands of articles at our finger tips and with everyone posting their information I can be existing spending 5-10 minutes reading each article only to find that you didn't enjoy the read if for example the article was less than well written. Speed reading allows you to get the gist and credit the original poster and continue moving to other blogs/articles on reddit or steemit that you might find interesting. This makes total sense that people are upvoting or clicking and not reading we just have to much information and not enough education on methods to absorb it without overloading. Great read btw, just my two cents.

>Microsoft Research suggests that the average attention span these days is around 8 seconds. 

I knew that my dog has the attention span of a flea, sad to know that it applies to people too.

I just read your post hoping to find some tricky hidden content, something that you secretly posted to test who was actually reading your content... I dont know why I expected that but I did! 

:)

Yes I really agree with this paper. So sometimes get comments that do not connect. Thanks for sharing. I resteem.

Actually, you are right and they are trying to attract their attention to the public.

That is true and its a interesting post @doitvoluntarily 👍

Sometimes people suck........I love to read but I have to admit...... when it comes to reddit I don't normally read everything everyone writes.

Same as Steemit

This is the main reason why I dont read online newspapers. Sitting down and actually holding the newspaper to read has proven to be better for my attention span.

Not hard to believe actually I see a lot right here on steemit people are constantly asking me questions about my Pop contest when the answers are right in the post  LOL! Usually the very first paragraph ! We live in a busy world and for me its just easier to skim over a lot of posts in my feed until I see something that interests me , then I read the whole post . Like yours @doitvoluntarily ! So a good headline always helps to grab new followers . But its also good to stay engaged with your followers even once every couple of days if you can . Thanks for sharing ! upped and resteemed👍👍👍
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