[apacheCamel]

I feel like this is a very negative way to view the situation. Libraries should totally be "fun". It should be "fun" to go and find a book that you enjoy or just spend time reading in an area dedicated to the love of books. It shouldn't be a place to just drop the kids off and leave, but it should be a place kids want to go. Reading can be fun and I almost feel like it is a "trendy thing" of my generation (Millennial) to hate it.

[amyjess]

You can blame how reading is taught in schools.

There is nothing that will suck the enjoyment out of a story faster than a high-school curriculum.

[erikpukinskis]

Where have you seen the reading hate trend?

[apacheCamel]

I should have made it more clear that it was in my own personal experience. Many of the kids from my highschool or even as late as the people I am still in contact with from college. Many are astonished I own a bookshelf full of books and actually read from it. I am pretty sure there is no real relation here, but I would like to compare it to how the same set of people feel about math. They have an assumption that it is boring and not fun so they actively avoid it.

[magic_beans]

God that's awful. Where are you from?

[acct1771]

Go around and ask any people, younger people the better, what the last three books they've read are.

Watch them struggle.

[erikpukinskis]

Not reading is one thing, hating books to be trendy is another.

[acct1771]

The most popular selection on FB in the West for favorite books literally seems to be "I don't read lol".

[cr0sh]

I don't know if it's necessarily "hate" per-se, but go read one or more forums on something like Reddit.

Depending on the forum, and the size of the comments, you'll sometimes see something like:

TL;DR

"too long; didn't read"

In some cases, you'll see a post where there will be a "TL;DR" section summarizing the "long form" version just below it.

The funny thing is, the "long form" might only be a paragraph or two, but apparently for a certain segment of the population who read forums, even that much information is "TL;DR" worthy.

These people don't want to read anything that won't fit inside a tweet. I'd dare say that for some, even 280 characters is just too much text to digest.

It leaves no room for thoughtful discourse. It leaves no room for intelligent debate and conversation.

I see such brush-offs of conversation online, and couple it with what I have heard of some people who eschew being alone; who need noise (particularly people around them talking with each other) so that they don't have to listen to their own thoughts - and it makes me shudder to think to what end our society will arrive at.

In a way, we are already witnessing its decline.