But it’s not just online anymore. She finds herself behaving the same way with a novel.
This is when skimming should be avoided, i think you can skim the back cover to see if you would be interested but I don't think that skimming the texts of a novel is very effecting to appreciate the story
“I give it a few seconds — not even minutes — and then I’m moving again,”
Although, this may be affecting the long term hobby of serious reading, this is a great way to see if they are interested in the article instead of wasting their time reading the entire thing only to realize that they just wasted 20 minutes of their time. This is a growing theme that adolescents have a short attention span.