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All of the above is precisely why I write long winded articles chock-a-block full of pictures and I don’t produce video essays.
Well, that and having a face made for radio but a voice made for print may also have something to do with it.
You can read anywhere from 4x-10x faster than someone can present.
It’s that simple.
Add to it, 99% of people completely suck at presenting.
I have siblings who are teachers, and I’m a technical instructor. We work hard to not waste your time.
You can read anywhere from 4x-10x faster than someone can present.
It’s that simple.
And in a well-written, well-organized article, you can very quickly and easily skip paragraphs or entire sections that aren’t relevant to what you’re trying to get out of it.
there’s been a good number of times where I open a link to a news site with a headline that drew me in, and I’m just scrolling around on my phone looking for the article, only to realize after an embarrassingly long time that the video at the top that looks like an ad is the actual content.
ofc it’s not entirely my fault, considering how shitty websites have gotten and how poorly structured they are. it’s just very difficult to identify the actual content sometimes
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Reading an article about a cat playing a keyboard just isn’t the same.
There are dozens of us. Dozens!
15 dotzens now.
Right now there’s only 11 of you.
I’ll join!
So, almost dozen?
We’re almost up to a gross now!
Just gross? Tell me when it gets nasty in here, then I’ll join in.
Yeah, once they hit 24, the statement is true.
I think a lot of people are only semi-literate, and many of them don’t realize it. They just think reading is kind of hard and uncomfortable, and don’t know why anyone would choose to do it.
You won’t find as many of them on a text-focused medium like here.
Reading requires attention. YouTube videos you can put on in the background during work or other activities.
I can’t imagine why I’d want to put on an informational video and not pay attention.
I listen to music at work.
hmm, while I’m doing menial/mindless tasks i really like educational podcasts and audiobooks. i can pay attention just fine while doing yard work or driving to work. i find music doesn’t occupy my mind enough while doing things like that.
Totally agree, if I’m hoping to retain anything.
I will totally listen to episodes of many of Simon Whistler’s channels at work and not care if I remember the details of some random serial killer’s history!
depends on the job: but I think audiobooks and podcasts are generally better for jobs where you don’t need your full attention on the job.
Music has no new information though, that’s just for enjoyment. Some of us don’t have enough time in a day to do everything we want to do so you gotta hack it lol
Nevermind. I think I misunderstood the comment I was responding to.
I feel like Watching Videos are more entertaining.
You won’t find as many of them on a text-focused medium like here.
Search for these strings and let’s talk.
- incase
- aswell
- literally
- (his|her|their|the) emails
- the ask
- the spend
I use literally. It’s a useful word. If someone complains about a use case of a tool, and that use case is literally the intended use case, it conveys how inappropriate their complaint is.
Never heard of those last two though.
Literally’s absolutely over-used, and usually used wrongly. I think we’ve lost our collective memory of Valley Girl Dialect – so grody.
“The ask” and “the spend” are a newer bit of scumbag coke-addled salesman dialect that has crept out into the light. Someone will ask “what was the ask on this?” where they mean to ask what the request or question was. Similarly, salesman use “the spend” in place of “the invoice” or “the budget”.
It’s like when “do lunch” or “action this” was used unironically.
post literate society gets closer everyday
If my client base is any indication it’s already here. We are thus as a society, to use the vernacular, most likely cooked.
Or simply divided between the literate and illiterate.
The Time Machine comes to mind.
I was thinking Fahrenheit 451. Written text is outlawed, everything is conveyed through images.
Excuse me, can you stop use big word please thx
Hard to disagree based on what I just experienced.
This morning I got some new earbuds. The booklet that came with the earbuds includes no written instructions. Only a short series of pictures to show you how to pair and use them. There is also a QR code to a video.
The pictures were clear and simple to follow. I must admit it was nice not to need to use my reading glasses. I’m not sure how cooked we are though. Mass literacy is a pretty recent development for human society after all.
Often things like that are so they don’t have to explain it in multiple languages for international markets. Same booklet for everyone!
Yeah. That’s just them saving money on translation and printing. Now they don’t have to pay for translators to every language they sell to, and they don’t have to print different instruction booklets for every language (or print a super-long instruction booklet that repeats the same instructions in 10 different languages).
Providing information is contextual.
Images instead of text for doing something when all of the information can be conveyed through pictures is generally better. Then the person doesn’t need to know what the name of a small part is, it doesn’t need to be translated, and that is the primary reason this is how they present safety information for things like airplane passengers.
Mart decisions whether to use text, images, and video is important. Literally everything being one of the three is awful.
Apparently the general population has an understanding of written/spoken language at about the 6th grade level…
What if the recent push back into feudalism works too well and we get the “dark ages” all over again… lol…
Well hey, that’s improved over 40 years ago. USA Today famously wrote to a 4th grade reading level.
But yeah, second dark ages is for real happening all around us.
All the apps are orchestrated social engineering to separate us from one another, making us easier to divide/manipulate
No “lol”, this is not the place to laugh aloud.
Lmao
And if it’s an X link I take a little detour to block the poster as well.
I copy the url and replace the domain part with xcancel.com
Lemmy plugin idea: when someone posts a YouTube link, the server copies the video to peertube instead.
Or maybe we could build that into the client to save server resources.
While that is an idea that’s cool for the fediverse as a whole, it COMPLETELY misses the point of this post. We want to READ the information, not listen to someone trickle feed it to us, peppered with adverts and asides.
There used to be a bot that would link to some YouTube frontend whenever a link got posted, but it almost never worked and even when it did it got downvoted constantly
There are some information that are best transmitted via video, some through audio, and others by text.
Yes. And peertube is still a work in progress.
But even among the proprietary video platforms, YouTube is the worst, lately.
YouTube used to be the only one with any kind of stream resilience, but that’s long solved.
I prefer to stick to anything that doesn’t now spend billions to make the experience worse, at least.
I’m glad I’m not the only one!
Several times a day, every day. I hate the ones that sucker you in, somehow. I follow the link fully expecting an article, and it’s just a video embedded in some site.
But, also the articles that tease the point. It could be two paragraphs, but the writer is apparently paid by the word, so you need to skim two-thirds of the article to get there.
Heise (german IT newspaper) posts transcriptions of their Tech Talk videos. They are usually multiple times as long (and more winded) than any article of them.
Amen.
If there is a brief summary of what is in the video, especially a mention of the timestamp where the real info is, then I might click on the link.
Unpopular opinion I know, but I don’t hate YouTube.
I don’t either, but the chances of me being interested in watching the video being posted are close to zero.
Yeah dude, you should absolutely believe this thing I’m saying. I even have a source. [two hour video from some youtuber]
Me anytime someone links a gamers nexus entry.
Holy shit is GN boring. Without fail he’ll make me fall asleep whilst he repeats his points over and over. And some of his “journalism” is so rough I just want to shake him and make him go back to school.
Repeating the same single points over and over does make your case and sure you might be right on some stuff using this technique but it doesn’t make you right on other things.
