When faced with any type of reading, I always try to look at it with an open mind, even it it's not something i'm interested in, or something I find very intriguing, I still give it a chance. Unfortunately, I don't think that is the case when it comes to many.Texts today need to be short and sweet. Most reading is done on the computer today, and with the crazy obsession with social networking, and other online websites, it's easy to say that many get distracted. I, am not ashamed to admit that by the fourth or fifth paragraph i start to "skim" the text. I feel like people need to say a lot, and they think they look "impressive" when they write more than they need to.
Its not hard to create a point in a few words...poets do it all the time, right? Therefore I don't understand why people find the need to bore us with useless information that goes right past our eyes, and doesn't even sit and process.
Most people just want to read the facts, the highlights...ya know, the interesting stuff, so when it comes to interrogating texts, that is usually what we look for.
Face it, in today's world everything has to be short. We have 160 characters to text, 140 to tweet, and anything after that looses interest. I am by no means saying that news stories should be brought to us in twitter format, I just think that its easier for many to comprehend, therefore proving that the longer the text the more we get distracted by other things. We don't have time to read long stories today because we're so fast paced. I just wonder what it will be like 10 years from now?
H: first, great (appropriate) pic. Next: again, better to avoid a wall of words and consider moving away from narrative and toward headed/topic-sentenced chunks.
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