I distinctly remember getting about 1% into this article about the heist of the McDonald’s Monopoly Game money, but not knowing how long it would be. I ended up getting to the 5th paragraph and read JEROME PAUL JACOBSON always dreamed of becoming a police officer. He was born in 1943 which is when I realized this was a long story and I couldn’t read the entire thing while on the toilet at work.
Comment on Who benefits from the "14 Min Read" estimates popping everywhere?
ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 1 week ago
People’s attention span is very short these days. The “x-minute read” is a courtesy to those who fear they might get trapped in an arduous and impossible-to-complete 2-digit-minute read.
bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
occultist8128@infosec.pub 1 week ago
brain rotted lol
netvor@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Yeah I have bad attention span but all that means is that even if the article is 5 minute I will be googling every other word and and opening every other link, and THAT’s far more significant than the length of the article.
After all, there’s a reason I did not end up reading the original “14 min article” (which by the way got rated almost an hour by Firefox reader mode, go figure) and went on to post this… :D
XeroxCool@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Exactly this. I don’t have time to read a 10+ minute article during this hour of shit post scrolling