/lit/ - Literature

Are people getting worse at reading? I don’t just mean kids either, adults as well. I sent a joke to a friend that was literally two sentences long and they said that they “weren’t going to read all that”. My sister borrowed a book from me and said she found it hard to read past four pages because she kept getting distracted. My friends and I decided to watch the new all quiet on the western front, but they voted to switch it off when they realised they would have to read subtitles. I’m doing a project in college and my partner takes ages to read a single page of notes and has to read out loud each word under his breath, he has no disabilities or anything.

Is reading becoming some kind of extremely difficult thing for people? Like most people aren’t fluent readers any more and have to actually sound words out and stuff? You’d think with social media and blogs more people would be reading than ever before, but no.