Just as the title asks I’ve noticed a very sharp increase in people just straight up not comprehending what they’re reading.
They’ll read it and despite all the information being there, if it’s even slightly out of line from the most straightforward sentence structure, they act like it’s complete gibberish or indecipherable.
Has anyone else noticed this? Because honestly it’s making me lose my fucking mind.
Unmarked sarcasm via text is just always a bad idea. People don’t realize how much body language, tone, and to an extent history with the person, goes into recognizing sarcasm IRL.
When you remove all of that context… it’s often just an extremely dumb statement, and I for one am just going to take you at your word, because too many people really do mean whatever it is you just said.
It’s also terrible because you get a comment like “I guess the earth really is flat” which maybe 99% of people take as sarcasm, and then the one flat earther or borderline flat earther comes along and goes “wow, lots of people are getting behind this movement!”