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When y`figure that so many people today only seem to be interested in 250-character content, I wonder if there`s any way to really know....

If there were a way to measure it, I`m willing to bet that people read through the first page and that`s about it. Our attention spans are growing smaller and smaller, plus some studies (can`t think of where I saw them at the moment) have shown that people `scan` the Internet and don`t actually `read` it.

So in all reality they might view the entire page, but actually only pick up bits and pieces.

The good news is that SuN is so heavily indexed by Google that many times a page will show up in search results based on language within a particular post to that page. 

If the topic asks my opinion, I don`t always read every post before replying. If a thread is asking for help, I do. Nothing is worse than chiming in with a solution on page 8 when the problem was solved on page 5 and had devolved into casual chatter. I`m very careful against looking like an idiot. I try to read every post on threads that catch my interest, regardless. Sometimes another person will phrase my opinion in a way that`s better than I would have. In general, it`s better to read everything. It`s so easy to look foolish posting out of context for the direction the thread has taken. Fitting in is important to me, or rather, not drawing attention to myself, so I do as the Romans do, whenever I`m in Rome.

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Making limitless possibilities much more limited.