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Video on its own is too slow, and often annoying to wade through if I need to find a particular point. Text on its own can be too vague, and can make it difficult to understand lengthy series of instructions if pictures and videos aren't included (a common problem with text based video game walkthroughs).
Reading. Nothing irritates me more than google pimping me spammy videos as an answers on simple questions. Videos forces you to consume information slowly in a sync manner. Videos are good for sense-rich entertainment. Information is perfectly and efficently can be (and always were) delivered at text.
Same. I'll be surprised if more people prefer video form of content.
But videos showing somebody write code or commands is infuriating. There's no need for that. A blog post with code examples would be much better.
Video is good for concepts that need visualizations, though a good blog post with animations or illustrations can work too. Video is required hands on demonstrations, like how to fix something on a car. But videos showing somebody write code or commands is infuriating. There's no need for that. A blog post with code examples would be much better.
Videos, podcasts and audiobooks have attracted a much larger viewership than anybody anticipated. Reading and reading comprehension are on the wane. More and more, I see the label "post-literate" applied to Gen Z and it worries me.
Reading. Nothing irritates me more than google pimping me spammy videos as an answers on simple questions. Videos forces you to consume information slowly in a sync manner. Videos are good for sense-rich entertainment. Information is perfectly and efficently can be (and always were) delivered at text.
Same. I'll be surprised if more people prefer video form of content.
Not so much video as audio. I work for a company that provides digital lending services for libraries. Guess what type of content is by far the most popular? Audiobooks. It's not even close. Most of the "videoification" of blog posts I see on youtube are basically just podcasts with somebody talking into a video camera instead of a microphone.
The way my mind works, when I'm learning something, nothing beats reading about it. Audio and video alone is almost totally worthless to me.