Only going to get worse with AI tools just narrating everything to people and the growth in brain rot content taking up every ounce of spare screen time!

Reading a book a year puts you in the 1% fight me on that

I'm sure if the poll was asked on reading on social media there would be a different result.

My son still reads a little bit each day. I am glad not that he has a smartphone and tablet and video games etc that he has kept up the habit.

Not surprising. Look at the length of content and the attention span it takes to comprehend it.

2007 is when the iPhone first came out iirc

Not good

All busy trying to make themselves stand out on TikTok, Instagram and the like.

Though I am honestly impressed with the ingenuity of today’s youths when it comes to making CapCut videos. Been the beneficiary of a few of those - and my students produced stuff that was poles apart from their work in the classroom haha. I think suffice it to say that the digital literacy of youths has improved