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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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[โ€“] norawibb@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What the fuck... I just commented on another post where I was failing to read a sentence. This was literally the next post I saw.

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[โ€“] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago

I... don't follow.

[โ€“] liztliss@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Definitely not bots, right?

[โ€“] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Look into attention span and the average time spent on web pages now that Facebook exists, it's crazy...

[โ€“] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[โ€“] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Sure, the problem got exacerbated by Facebook though, they encourage their users to quickly go from one post to another.

[โ€“] amio@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

In what sense, in what context?

[โ€“] Donger@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's all the kids who missed two years of school because of COVID

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[โ€“] ShittyRedditWasBetter@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm going to assume people are having trouble understanding what you write and that if everyone around you doesn't understand.... Well that's on you.

[โ€“] mayo@lemmy.today 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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