Text to become obsolete and replaced by video

[vraiblonde]

Rumor has it (for what it's worth) that Facebook is going to replace a lot of their trending news with video instead of text. Wouldn't surprise me, based on the way information is being presented on the internet these days - much of it is in the form of video.

Personally, I hate this. Video is an enormous time sucker and instead of watching some talking head blather for 20 minutes, I'd rather spend 5 minutes reading the story. When I get to a news story that you have to watch instead of read, I blow it off and look for the information somewhere else. It boggles me that anyone has that kind of time to sit and watch mini movies all day.

Are we just illiterate these days and *can't* read anymore? I don't understand this phenomenon. Supposedly the new marketing trend is to push commercials instead of email or banner ads to promote your product or service - I would delete these immediately and not even bother to open them. If we fast forward over commercials on TV, why on earth would we sit still for commercials in our email or social media?

I don't get it.

 

[RoseRed]

I'd rather read the articles also. Half the time the videos get hung up buffering and I don't have the patience it wait for it.

 

[kom526]

Firefox and adobe need to get their poop in a group then because they do not like each other. [Unresponsive Plug In] Shockwave Flash may be busy or has stopped working.

 

[RPMDAD]

agree kom, i get that all the time, getting ready to give up on firefox.

 

[vraiblonde]

Firefox and adobe need to get their poop in a group then because they do not like each other. [Unresponsive Plug In] Shockwave Flash may be busy or has stopped working.

Flash is getting ready to go the way of the dinosaur. HTML5 is the new kid on the block and that's where everything is going. So all you website developer geeks with your flash splash screens - ha ha. I told you years ago that they sucked.

 

[kom526]

Flash is getting ready to go the way of the dinosaur. HTML5 is the new kid on the block and that's where everything is going. So all you website developer geeks with your flash splash screens - ha ha. I told you years ago that they sucked.

I have the biggest problems with Flash on some websites, the forums being one of them. Maybe it is the google ads?

 

[GWguy]

I prefer to read the article as well. CNN is awful with the videos; they auto-start so you have to wait while everything clogs up loading before you can shut it down. If you ignore it and let it run while reading, the video ends and starts loading a new one, totally unrelated to the text you're still reading.

 

[vraiblonde]

I have the biggest problems with Flash on some websites, the forums being one of them. Maybe it is the google ads?

It's the Google ads - we don't use flash for our site because so many people have it turned off or are at work and don't have it at all. I anticipate Google will be doing away with that as a delivery system soon.

 

[glhs837]

I hate how to videos, much rather a step by step with pics. Lets me blow by the stuff I already know. Same with news.

 

[GURPS]

Rumor has it (for what it's worth) that Facebook is going to replace a lot of their trending news with video instead of text.

Firefox and adobe need to get their poop in a group then because they do not like each other. [Unresponsive Plug In] Shockwave Flash may be busy or has stopped working.

I already get that with the Washington Times Website ... some 'drone' reading the exact contents to the article I an reading
its annoying and with the work filtering it leads to the page freezing until shockwave [flash] crashes



works fine from home .... and we don't have the latest Firefox / Flash either because INFOSEC has to bless everything 1st

 

[Vince]

I would rather read the article than watch a 20 min video. I see that with the news all the time. They put a video up and it takes forever for these people to talk and get to the point, but....as with other things, written articles may go by the wayside. Hell, look what happened to cursive. Hardly anyone writes in cursive anymore except signing your name. They don't even teach it in schools.

 

[GURPS]

I told you years ago that they sucked.

Flash
Java
Active X


all gaping security holes

 

[GURPS]

I would rather read the article than watch a 20 min video.

I can skim the article before the damn video queues up

 

[Vince]

I will admit there are some videos that I want to see. Example: Looking for a teardown procedure for a carburetor for a certain problem. It's more helpful to see a video than read an article and see pictures.

 

[GWguy]

I will admit there are some videos that I want to see. Example: Looking for a teardown procedure for a carburetor for a certain problem. It's more helpful to see a video than read an article and see pictures.

Difference there is that video is probably on YouTube, and you're purposely looking for it, whereas on the news feeds the video is kind of forced on you.

 

[SamSpade]

I've long since turned Flash and other video stuff off, on my browsers.

I agree. I never go to idiotic video feeds for the very reasons you give - I can read the relevant information faster than the video can give it to me - I can much more quickly ascertain if it's even worth reading - and I can go back and find a piece of information repeatedly without having to manipulate the feed.

If news ever becomes all video, I'd prefer to just remain ignorant.

 

[GWguy]

I'm thinking the news outlets figure it's cheaper, faster and easier to cut and paste a video than it is to pay for someone to actually think and type out an article.

 

[SamSpade]

I'm thinking the news outlets figure it's cheaper, faster and easier to cut and paste a video than it is to pay for someone to actually think and type out an article.

Hard to believe - how much can it cost to just buy an article from someone who's already written it?

 

[Larry Gude]

In the mean time, one of the simplest and most viewed sites of all time, drudge, continues to not assault you.

 

[GURPS]

In the mean time, one of the simplest and most viewed sites of all time, drudge, continues to not assault you.

didn't they just get an award for best aggregation site ?