I think we are well past the stages of too much information and articles just being written about anything you can possibly imagine.
I am old enough to remember a time when newspapers were the norm and the news was only on for an hour a day. In these times the people who made these things had to be very choosy about what it is that they were going to report on and would very rarely feature something so mind-numbingly stupid as an article that popped across my news feed. I do have to say though, if clickbait was an art, The Daily Mail would have a PhD in it.
The Daily Mail, just like almost any other publication in the world right now, simply writes trash. You learn nothing from reading what they put out there yet they still manage to have a rather large audience.
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My expectations are very very low when it comes to almost any news publication but The Daily Mail featuring a "science "article about how coffee doesn't actually wake you up, it just delays feeling sleepy, is beyond stupid. Here's the thing though: Out of morbid curiosity I read every single word of the article in question.
I can't imagine that there are a lot of people out there that actually give a rip what exactly it is that caffeine does to a person but they just know that for most people, it tends to make them more alert.
Now ask yourself this question: What is the difference between being awake and being not asleep? Not much right? Well that is about the difference I feel when I read that people actually spent money and did research to discover that caffeine doesn't actually wake you up but just delays your desire to go to sleep. What's next? Exercise doesn't make you sweat, it just raises your body temperature. Or "food doesn't make you full, it just makes you feel less hungry."
Normally I write articles about how disgusted I am with the political drivel that is thrown at us from both the right and the left but I think what is actually happening here is that I am frustrated about how the clicks industry has become so huge that we are being subjected to absolutely asinine articles that have strange headlines.
The article (and as it turns out many others with a similar topic matter) points out the extremely surprising thing that I am certain nobody was aware of: The longer you delay sleep, the more exhausted you are going to be when the drugs finally wear off.
I can't help but feel like the people that are in charge of writing these things believe that their audience are all morons or if they legitimately are FORCED to write 20 articles a day and it can be about anything at all.
I ended up reading 3 or 4 articles about this same topic not because I care, but because I am in a state of disbelief that someone out there presumably draws a salary from writing this stuff. This is the sort of crap that when I was in school for journalism and submitted this to the professor for potential publication that he would probably laugh and say "good one, now where is the real article submission."
But this is the world we live in now folks. I recall the statement where somebody said that in today's world almost everyone has an instrument that can access all the combined knowledge that the world has ever come up with, yet somehow we are managing to be dumber in the process.
This doesn't even make me mad but I do feel as though the world is slowly but surely becoming stupider. So much stupider in fact that many people have given up on even trying to know anything because the phone can do it for you. Why learn anything?
One of the more ironic aspects was that one of the articles that I read had ads that vary depending on what sort of internal cookies told it to put in that place rather than a dedicated advertisement and the product being advertised, was coffee.
Awesome... just awesome.
