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Social media users probably won’t read beyond this headline, researchers say (www.psu.edu)

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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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[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Right? Do you expect me to click on 90% of articles?

Social media is a filter. I'm using it to figure out what is worth clicking on.

[–] Kintarian@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Politics, sensationalism, click bait, fear mongering. A lot of content is useless to me.