Re:Reading habits that changed my life
by dghughes on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @09:14AM
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I find it interesting that you see articles about how the general public don't read books. But thinking back to the 1980s when I was a teenager all we did was watch TV and play video games. Now with the Internet people are reading every single day. Sure maybe not books of a single theme or concept but people are certainly reading more overall.
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Not sure it's that different. There used to be trash magazines about celebrities and mysterious UFOs and romance stories etc. And even today most people don't read articles, they read chat messages and tweets and short fb posts etc. The cliche thing everyone jokes about is how nobody reads the damn article (reddit, HN etc).
News portal reading is kinda similar to newspaper reading. Teens don't read "boring" political articles today nor in the 80s. They read their niche stuff, but they did have hobby magazines on electronics, fantasy or fashion or music even back then.
It could be that you yourself and your peers read more simply as a function of getting older and more mature.