Reading Habits In Transition
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reriber things. However, whottor this hashad a
Pesive or negaive impactis stil unknown,
How nas the Internet changes the way we rend?
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Some worder ith intemethas made it more
dificult to conserrate on one task without gating
‘isracted by other things. We ae consaniy
Interapted by updates ham social media sites and
‘e-mail massages. We flow linia te other wotitos
hare we find mera ink to aher Websites and
Jump fom topic to topic We are also bomtarcad
wi alot of jank—tor example, newsfeeds about
celebrties, pop-un aés about products We don't
went rn, a watngs about Yes,
‘Some consider wnat we ead on the Intern to
‘botrash compared to adionalffine reading,
wine others see many aivaniages in the mang
vedo on he intomet Some argue that reading
‘onthe internet ike oxercieo for the bain,
mickng it easier for us fo cope with cistactons
and Wink dearly as we lear to make choices
‘that work or us In areoont study, 81% of those
‘suvayed agreed tha our use of te internet nas
‘chaly made ws smarter you are dia
aivo-that ls, semeone. who grew up with the
Inernet—thats vary good news, indeed.