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I laughed out loud at "200 erotic romance novels" :) Of course you're right about that. But the conclusion should not be "continue rotting away on social netwo

• watwut 7y ago
  > Of course you're right about that. But the conclusion should not be "continue rotting away on social networks", the conclusion should be "read 200 good books". "Good book" is extremely subjective category. But I imagine that with such consumption, they would become boring and repetitive quickly.
• S_A_P 7y ago
  You are absolutely right. Even 2 good books are a huge improvement, and reading quality should be the takeaway. I will even admit that my romance novels is a bit of a straw man, but I think what bothers me about articles like this is the amount of assumptions that go into it. Is social media the only reason they arent reading? If it went away magically would the world be better because we all read and gained knowledge? I will even backtrack a bit and say maybe this article is good in that it does the math of what is theoretically possible if you do reject social media. At the end of the day though someone has to want to do better to make this change.
• criddell 7y ago
  > the conclusion should be "read 200 good books" 200 books of any type sounds like too much time in one activity for me.