In praise of text

[theladywolf]

Does anyone else get annoyed about the proliferation of videos on the Internet? I am so fed up of spotting an interesting link only to get there and discover it’s a video. Not only a video, but part 1 of a series that runs for hours.

Have they no respect for my speed-reading skills? I can skilfully extract the usefulness out of any article in

Comments

[sarah_prineas]

Not really annoyed, just...

I'm not a visual person but am extremely text-oriented. So I tend to skip videos.

[theladywolf]

But sometimes they have the information I want. Or I think they might have the information I want.:)

I have discovered thought that if I google seaarch the blogs, people will often have watched it and have any usefulness in it summarised. Then I just have to wonder are they right. :)

[jongibbs]

Hehe, at least some of them show the duration somewhere on the screen.

[theladywolf]

That's what drives me crazy sometimes. It's 100 minutes long. You're seven minutes in and nothing has happened, except promises of what's going to happen. You can mostly wrap any point up in seven minutes if you're succinct. :)

[jongibbs]

Absolutely, even withthe 'Tell 'em what you're gonna tell 'em; tell 'em; then tell 'em what you just told 'em' method.

I had a hard time adjusting to audio books because narration is so much slower than reading, though I'm okay with them now.

[theladywolf]

I can't imagine I'd ever get used to audio books. I'd be screaming at the tape, "read faster, read faster," and trying to find a way to fast forward through descriptions of scenery. :)

[kara_gnome]

I *really* have to be determined to click on the link, as I find the whole thing annoying, too.

[theladywolf]

Once again, we are alike. :)

[kara_gnome]

Practically twins! Well, if not for those pesky few decades that separate us, I bet you could hardly tell us apart, heheheeh