A new study of 35 million news links circulated on Facebook reports that more than 75% of the time they were shared without the link being clicked upon and read

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Maybe because most of the articles are clickbait anyway

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I feel like 90% of people will only look at the first part of a thing tho.

Book titles get read more than the book

Movie posters get seen more than the movie

Album covers get seen more than the album gets listened too.

I did just pull all of this out of my ass though

E: having read the article they’re talking about sharing an article not just reading it which would be different since I don’t think many people recommend other media they haven’t consumed

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Correct. Next.

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Me attempting to take the time to read twenty poorly formatted articles per day, broken up into fourteen paragraphs each and seperated by what I assume are intended to be hundreds of intrusive ads and completely diverging from what the headline baited me into thinking this ad (er… article…) was about in the first place:

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Psychologists say you came to comment section just because of that heading.

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