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Videos will never become the majority of content I consume. My requirements to make this a reality are not going to happen any time soon. 1. Videos must contai

Videos will never become the majority of content I consume. My requirements to make this a reality are not going to happen any time soon. 1. Videos must contain absolutely no fluff. If the video could have been made 20 seconds long, then it must be 20 seconds long. It is unacceptable for the video to be 60 seconds long with unnecessary filler content, intros/outros, "please like and subscribe", etc. If the "moment" of your video is your child saying something funny, it had better be a 5 second video of the quote; a 5 minute video of your child playing, with something funny said at 3:45 into the video is not even remotely acceptable. 2. I only watch video if I have headphones in. I don't always have headphones in. You're going to have to invent sound isolating, in-ear implants that can be turned on and off on demand, to replace my $1500 IEMs that I have to manually insert and remove to switch between interacting with the real world vs. my device. 3. Social awkwardness. I will never be comfortable recording myself for every update, and furthermore will never have the patience to invest the time required to edit my own videos to comply with the requirements of point #1 above. tldr; "All video" is pure bullshit. I can't see myself producing video content to share, and I do not have the patience nor the time to watch other people's overly long videos.

bwldrbst 10y ago
Don't worry about point 3 - your role is to watch videos, not produce them.
- developer2 10y ago
  True enough. I hadn't considered the fact that the majority of FaceBook video - at least today - is advertising (some direct, much of it advertising disguised as "content"), and a lot of cause-of-the-day spam. My initial thought went to the idea that normal users would communicate primarily via video, by posting personal videos pertaining to themselves and their relationships with others. But of course on FaceBook, the users are the product, and we are being sold to the real market which are the businesses. What a world we live in.

bwldrbst 10y ago

Don't worry about point 3 - your role is to watch videos, not produce them.

developer2 10y ago
True enough. I hadn't considered the fact that the majority of FaceBook video - at least today - is advertising (some direct, much of it advertising disguised as "content"), and a lot of cause-of-the-day spam. My initial thought went to the idea that normal users would communicate primarily via video, by posting personal videos pertaining to themselves and their relationships with others. But of course on FaceBook, the users are the product, and we are being sold to the real market which are the businesses. What a world we live in.