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Admittedly, I'm a "well-read, intellectual-type" person, but I find videos of people talking to be exceedingly boring. I can't stand podcasts or talk radio eith
by lapcat 3y ago
Admittedly, I'm a "well-read, intellectual-type" person, but I find videos of people talking to be exceedingly boring. I can't stand podcasts or talk radio either. To me they're just tedious, and whenever I try to watch or listen, I have to turn them off after a few minutes. The S/N ratio is so low. The speakers take 10 minutes to say something that could be read in 1 minute. It's a giant waste of time. And you're forced to sit through all of the filler: the "ums", the "ahs", the pauses, the idle chit-chat.
I don't deny that talk media is massively popular. I don't get it, though. It's not for me. I would guess that maybe viewers/listeners want to identify with the speakers and consider them friends.
- keiferski 3y agoI think it’s mostly that humans spent thousands of years talking to each other in person, not looking at complex symbol systems quietly and alone. Video is more of a replication of an in-person conversation than writing, and I expect holograms / AR to eventually replace video for the same reason.
- mst 3y agoI can sometimes tolerate them at 1.5x or 2x speed. Generally though I hunt around for a transcript (even a shitty automated transcript is often just about readable -enough- if I'm interested) or google up articles on whatever the topic of the video is and read those instead. I'm not sure what the percentage split of preferences is, but I -do- strongly suspect that "liking text more than video" is rather more common amongst developers than amongst humans in general.