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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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[–] Kintarian 76 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

I don't read 90% of the articles because they're mostly crap.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

This article is about sharing links without having read the content, not just scrolling past or commenting without reading first

Edit: a more accurate headline would be

Facebook users probably won't read beyond this headline before sharing it, researchers say

[–] Kintarian 3 points 3 weeks ago

Oh, ok. It seemed they were talking about people only reading the headlines, then sharing with people who only read the headlines.

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