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Thanks; and I'm totally with you. Most informational topics (except perhaps obviously mechanical topics - e.g. changing an inner tube on a bike) are by far bet

by mft_ 3y ago

Thanks; and I'm totally with you. Most informational topics (except perhaps obviously mechanical topics - e.g. changing an inner tube on a bike) are by far better dealt with in written/pictoral form. Funny you mention boomers - I remember my Dad, many years ago, complaining vociferously about how much TV documentaries were padded out with extraneous content versus those on radio. What goes around, etc. :) --- Even more of a tangent, but regarding the march of videos on the internet, I have been surprised by how much I've enjoyed (and even derived value from) TikTok, which I would have expected be the worst of the worst. But thanks to its nature, it's both far more efficient at enabling discovery, and almost always far more concise, than Youtube. And oddly, TikTok has done a lot to drive off-internet pastimes, thanks to discovery of new books to read, recipes to shop for and cook, films to watch, exercise routines to try, etc. It's so weird so write this, but I find (my little slice of?) TikTok unbelievably wholesome.

zoeysmithe 3y ago
Great comment! Totally agree here! A lot of boomers didn't like the TV-ization of the world. For a long time Neil Postman's "Amusing ourselves to death," was a top rated academic commentary on how TV is ruining society by moving us more towards sensationalized news, easy manipulation, centralization, etc. Its sad to think that war is long over and TV has won. And now that same war has been lost on the internet with things like youtube. I'd argue tik-tok is a new artform and not TV or youtube like at all, and works pretty well for what it does. It doesn't ever, at least for me, take the place of written materials or photo tutorials or technical articles, but youtube is doing its best to replace those items. Tik-tok is more a unique media that wants to create a new space in your life and badly constrained by its short video focus, but youtube trying to eat the internet by eating up traditional spaces like written media.

by mft_ 3y ago

zoeysmithe 3y ago

Great comment! Totally agree here! A lot of boomers didn't like the TV-ization of the world. For a long time Neil Postman's "Amusing ourselves to death," was a top rated academic commentary on how TV is ruining society by moving us more towards sensationalized news, easy manipulation, centralization, etc. Its sad to think that war is long over and TV has won. And now that same war has been lost on the internet with things like youtube. I'd argue tik-tok is a new artform and not TV or youtube like at all, and works pretty well for what it does. It doesn't ever, at least for me, take the place of written materials or photo tutorials or technical articles, but youtube is doing its best to replace those items. Tik-tok is more a unique media that wants to create a new space in your life and badly constrained by its short video focus, but youtube trying to eat the internet by eating up traditional spaces like written media.