People no longer want to read threads and articles on the timeline again, and it's so sad to witness this. Earlier, when I joined this space, we always looked forward to that Creator/Writer dropping a thread or article. We all enjoyed reading those threads, grabbing as much alpha and knowledge as we could. This write-up you're reading now is already becoming too long for someone else who's also reading it, and that's how bad it has gotten. Currently, you see people saying things like: >They can't read all those long stuffs. >The thread is too long. >They prefer video content... and so on. My question is: WHAT CHANGED? I strongly believe two things may have caused this, and I'm going to share my thoughts. You can quote this with yours, so buckle up if you've personally experienced things like this. > The first is Engagement Spaces: Engagement spaces are not bad. I hop on them once in a while too, but when you interact with 100 thread posts in the space of 1 hour, you're being rushed by the space host to drop a comment because, obviously, that's the goal of the space. You're building yourself to stare at a particular piece of content and assume what to comment without actually consuming the content, just to drop your own engagement. Over the days, you get addicted to this method of interaction. Because of that daily habit, you slowly lose the ability to spend quality time on content, and that's when the problem starts. Most people would use another method to interact, which happens to be the second thing I believe is causing this problem. > The use of AI: This could be more dangerous than engagement spaces themselves. Though engagement space hosts may have initiated this movement, which is slowly killing the reading habit the people once had, but no one would agree to this. You hop on a space, and all you do is copy the content of an article/thread and give it to AI for a response. "Humanize my reply without the use of AI slop." 😂 Artificial intelligence has truly made things faster for us, but all you're doing is literally feeding the AI more data to become more smarter while you get dumber because you couldn't even read the content. Sorry, but I have to laugh at this point. 😂 If you're someone who does this, the best thing to do is bookmark all those posts you engage with. Set a reminder on your phone and find time to go through every single piece of content and understand it.... the Alpha are in those post, but you can never know. At least, let the engagement benefit you in some way beyond the comments you're dropping and getting. Or could it also be that the thread writers aren't giving us good content anymore ? Drop your thoughts 👇

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