Posted on 06/18/2016 4:30:46 AM PDT by Sir_Humphrey
On June 4, the satirical news site the Science Post published a block of “lorem ipsum” text under a frightening headline: “Study: 70% of Facebook users only read the headline of science stories before commenting.”
Nearly 46,000 people shared the post, some of them quite earnestly — an inadvertent example, perhaps, of life imitating comedy.
Now, as if it needed further proof, the satirical headline’s been validated once again: According to a new study by computer scientists at Columbia University and the French National Institute, 59 percent of links shared on social media have never actually been clicked: In other words, most people appear to retweet news without ever reading it
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Great googalimoogalie. Look what done grown out this thread. Wiener jokes.
Hmm, did i post that to you 3 times? So sorry! Thought it was to other people.
Most of us prefer to read and draw our own conclusions.
However, some of us like to compare our conclusions with the conclusions of others. When the conclusions between like-minded people differ, it is wise to examine why.
appears so. no worries!
On the other hand, we denounce with righteous indignation and dislike men who are so beguiled and demoralized by the charms of pleasure of the moment, so blinded by desire, that they cannot foresee the pain and trouble that are bound to ensue; and equal blame belongs to those who fail in their duty through weakness of will, which is the same as saying through shrinking from toil and pain.
These cases are perfectly simple and easy to distinguish. In a free hour, when our power of choice is untrammelled and when nothing prevents our being able to do what we like best, every pleasure is to be welcomed and every pain avoided. But in certain circumstances and owing to the claims of duty or the obligations of business it will frequently occur that pleasures have to be repudiated and annoyances accepted.
The wise man therefore always holds in these matters to this principle of selection: he rejects pleasures to secure other greater pleasures, or else he endures pains to avoid worse pains.
it tells me i’ve read my limit of free articles for the month.
The delete your history and cookies. Start fresh every day, use Ccleaner and MRU Blaster every night when you shutdown.
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