Why is video so prevalent in social media nowadays? Often information has to be condensed to fit the time allowed and it makes it more difficult to follow rather than text
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I *loathe* video content where text would be just as good. I really don’t like having to consume the content at someone else’s pace, and I have trouble with auditory processing of speech anyways so I need to enable subtitles anyways.
Sometimes video makes sense (demonstrating something, commenting on something audio or visual, etc) but most of the time text content would be fine.
If you control the timeline of the content dispensing, you control when ads can be inserted, though.
I used to be able to look up DIY procedures on how to do vehicle repairs. From installing an ignition switch to replacing an alternator, it was all laid out for me step-by-step with pictures if I was lucky.
Now, whenever I look up how to do a repair correctly, I’ve got to sit and watch a whole 8-minute video taken by whoever, narrated ad-hoc, with one hand running the camera and another holding the wrench.
You might have to sit through 5 minutes of drivel to get 1 nugget of specialized information you needed. If you fast-forward, you might miss something. Also, you can’t print out this video and take it to the shop with you, you’ve got to have your grubby, oily fingers manipulating your phone or tablet to take the directions with you.
Screw it. I’ll grab the repair manual now, and DIY without any help from the community.
What is even weirder to me is the lack of vocabulary in these videos. Okay so you want to film yourself speaking but then repeatedly use “like, um, the vibe, my aesthetic, I don’t know, you know?, I feel, so like…” over and over again.
And then the upward inflections. My gosh the upward inflections. “Sooo todayyy we have like… a little target haulllll…omg isn’t this sooo cute-ah”
I *loathe* video content where text would be just as good. I really don’t like having to consume the content at someone else’s pace, and I have trouble with auditory processing of speech anyways so I need to enable subtitles anyways.
Sometimes video makes sense (demonstrating something, commenting on something audio or visual, etc) but most of the time text content would be fine.
If you control the timeline of the content dispensing, you control when ads can be inserted, though.
I used to be able to look up DIY procedures on how to do vehicle repairs. From installing an ignition switch to replacing an alternator, it was all laid out for me step-by-step with pictures if I was lucky.
Now, whenever I look up how to do a repair correctly, I’ve got to sit and watch a whole 8-minute video taken by whoever, narrated ad-hoc, with one hand running the camera and another holding the wrench.
You might have to sit through 5 minutes of drivel to get 1 nugget of specialized information you needed. If you fast-forward, you might miss something. Also, you can’t print out this video and take it to the shop with you, you’ve got to have your grubby, oily fingers manipulating your phone or tablet to take the directions with you.
Screw it. I’ll grab the repair manual now, and DIY without any help from the community.
What is even weirder to me is the lack of vocabulary in these videos. Okay so you want to film yourself speaking but then repeatedly use “like, um, the vibe, my aesthetic, I don’t know, you know?, I feel, so like…” over and over again.
And then the upward inflections. My gosh the upward inflections. “Sooo todayyy we have like… a little target haulllll…omg isn’t this sooo cute-ah”
I used to be able to look up DIY procedures on how to do vehicle repairs. From installing an ignition switch to replacing an alternator, it was all laid out for me step-by-step with pictures if I was lucky.
Now, whenever I look up how to do a repair correctly, I’ve got to sit and watch a whole 8-minute video taken by whoever, narrated ad-hoc, with one hand running the camera and another holding the wrench.
You might have to sit through 5 minutes of drivel to get 1 nugget of specialized information you needed. If you fast-forward, you might miss something. Also, you can’t print out this video and take it to the shop with you, you’ve got to have your grubby, oily fingers manipulating your phone or tablet to take the directions with you.
Screw it. I’ll grab the repair manual now, and DIY without any help from the community.
Video grabs our attention more than other media, because it stimulates our brain more. You skim over text, but a picture, and especially a moving picture grabs your focus. It’s probably an evolutionary thing that makes it hard to ignore.
And because of that reason video gets more likes / views / whatever metric than just text, audio or photos. And because it gets the most internet points, it’s what people who want internet points will use.
I hate this.
If I just want the steps to do something in photoshop for example, and I have to go through 3 minutes of ads, an absurdly long intro, and some corny jokes before they y get to the actual information, which might not be the information that you’re looking for! and you have to do it all over again with the next video!
That could’ve been easier with a page of text.
Video grabs our attention more than other media, because it stimulates our brain more. You skim over text, but a picture, and especially a moving picture grabs your focus. It’s probably an evolutionary thing that makes it hard to ignore.
And because of that reason video gets more likes / views / whatever metric than just text, audio or photos. And because it gets the most internet points, it’s what people who want internet points will use.
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