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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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[–] Fleur_@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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