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Has anyone else noticed a sudden lack of reading comprehension skills? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 years ago by ThatWeirdGuy1001@sh.itjust.works to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Just as the title asks I've noticed a very sharp increase in people just straight up not comprehending what they're reading.

They'll read it and despite all the information being there, if it's even slightly out of line from the most straightforward sentence structure, they act like it's complete gibberish or indecipherable.

Has anyone else noticed this? Because honestly it's making me lose my fucking mind.

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[-] humanplayer2@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

5G. They take your data. It penetrates brain tissue. You read and understand, but don't see it, because they take the understanding. To train their models. Reading is free, so you are the product.

[-] exohuman@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

I think this may also have to do with a large number of people who have English as a second (or third or fourth) language on the internet. I think when producing online articles or (linking to them) we should keep this in mind.

[-] h_a_r_u_k_i@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

I think that more or less relates to FOMO (fear of missing out). Some really scare to slowly digest something because he thinks he would miss the vast information out there that keeps churning indefinitely.

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