Facebook is wrong, text is deathless

Post by niftich » Sat, Jun 18, 2016, 1:28 AM UTC

ben_jones wrote: post #10

manigandham wrote: post #8

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> to keep the new millenials, they're pushing everyone else away. Millennials are the biggest and most active group, and more important to them compared to "everyone else" - they know what they're doing.

In the same vein I don't think it's as much capturing millennials as keeping up with them. It's impossible to predict every upcoming trend, but if they keep themselves nimble through acquisitions and trimmed product offerings they can ride the coattails of instagram/whatsapp type companies into eternity.

Post by the_af » Sat, Jun 18, 2016, 1:35 AM UTC

Terribledactyl wrote: post #17

toomanythings2 wrote: post #4

Well ... uh ... I think ... I think ... uh ... everyone can hear me? ... I'll wait till the guys in the back ... oh and the girls, too, right hahahahahah ... OK ... let's get started... Sure. I know Facebook wouldn't put out videos like that but it seems 80% of all videos linked to do start out like that and that's the quality you're going to get from anyone worth listening to. Even the polished ones, though, blatter…

I completely agree there is a lot of garbage in a lot of video content, but if you can take advantage of the audio visual capacity you can get a lot. An example, Just watching a master craftsman do something can reveal a lot of tiny differences in technique that add up to a lot, but may not be written down explicitly.

Post by adventured » Sat, Jun 18, 2016, 1:44 AM UTC

gumby wrote: post #9

> Human brains process it absurdly well considering there's nothing really built-in for it. That's unclear. The sheer bitrate of reading suggests that it might tap into some deep structures -- hacking some parts of the visual and speech systems, if you prefer. I don't click on HN video links because I find video slow and frustrating way to learn almost anything. Text is so random access -- you can skip over boring bi…

Post by manigandham » Sat, Jun 18, 2016, 1:45 AM UTC

auganov wrote: post #16

Mendenhall wrote: post #15

I cant stand videos for most information. By the time the video loads and the probably slow speaking individual goes over just the introduction of the information, I could have already read a more informative article/post.

Since I started playing all YouTube videos at 2x speed[0] I enjoy watching/listening to videos much more. Watching videos at 1x is just unbearable to me now. I wish FB added 2x playback too. [0] using https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/improvedtube-youtu...

Post by douche » Sat, Jun 18, 2016, 1:58 AM UTC

the_af wrote: post #23

Terribledactyl wrote: post #17

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I completely agree there is a lot of garbage in a lot of video content, but if you can take advantage of the audio visual capacity you can get a lot. An example, Just watching a master craftsman do something can reveal a lot of tiny differences in technique that add up to a lot, but may not be written down explicitly.

Agreed, watching someone do something with his/her hands is (almost always) better than reading about it. But consider another scenario: a video of someone showing you how they type some code while talking about it. This sort of videos are unbearable to me, and I don't understand how some people can enjoy them. I'd rather read the code in text form, at my own pace.