But unfortunately, it has nothing to do with a second Earth or better with that planet
Earth.
However, since you are now reading, you will almost certainly be interested in this
research which examined the click and share behavior of social media users who read
(or not) the content and then share it on social media. We are here on Sci-Tech
Universe has long noticed that many of our followers will appreciate, share and
offer a happy opinion on an article, all without ever reading it. We are not alone
in noticing this. Last April, NPR shared an article on their Facebook page asking
"Why does America no longer read?". The joke, of course, is that there were no
articles. They waited to see if their followers would have pondered an opinion
without clicking on the link and were not disappointed.
We hoped for an opportunity to try it ourselves and this seemed the perfect
opportunity.
A team of computer scientists from Columbia University and the French National
Institute examined a dataset of over 2.8 million online news articles shared via
Twitter. The study found that up to 59 percent of the links shared on Twitter were
never actually clicked on by that person's followers, suggesting that social media
users prefer to share content rather than clicking on it and reading it.
"People are more willing to share an article than to read it," said study co-author
Arnaud Legout in a statement, the Washington Post reports. “This is typical of modern
information consumption. People form an opinion based on a summary or summary of
summaries, without making the effort to investigate. "
This study examines the psychology behind what makes people want to share content.
Research conducted by the New York Times Customer Insight Group investigated what
motivates people to share information. Just under half of the people surveyed said
they shared information on social media to inform people and "enrich" those around
them. Instead, they found 68 percent of the odds to reinforce and project their image
- in a way, to "define" them