KEY TAKEAWAYS Digital reading might be adversely affecting kids' reading comprehension skills, a recently published meta-analysis finds. Digital reading does improve comprehension skills, but the beneficial effect is between six and seven times smaller than that of print reading. Digital texts, such as social media chats and blogs, tend to be much shorter and have worse linguistic quality compared to printed works. Phones and computers also expose readers to distractions from social media, YouTube, and video games. The authors recommend that parents and teachers limit kids' time with digital content, or at least emphasize printed works or using basic e-readers with ink screens.

Purely anecdotal, but I'm pretty sure my reading ability has gotten worse since I started using reddit many moons ago. I never used to get distracted every few paragraphs while reading a book or long article. It could just be bog standard cognitive decline from aging, but I'm not THAT old, and I do feel like social media rewires your brain to prefer single-bite information.

Sounds like made up nonsense. Reading is reading. Whether it’s a book, an iPad, a newspaper, a billboard, or whatever.