Conversely, some things should not be articles either. I tried looking up the temp for cooking chicken, and the amount of 20-minute reads out there to find out it’s 165° for chicken breast, is too damn high.
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The problem in that case is SEO. What you need is a table of cooking temps or just a single number, but what ranks high is a web page that mentions "cooking", "chicken" and "temperature" a million times.
(Or be like Gen X and keep a cook book and a scattered assortment of notes in a drawer)
Thank you for elaborating and proving my point.
i am 12 can you make a video that tells me the chicken cooking temp
Some thermometers have common safe cooking temps printed on them, its very helpful
I've got most of them memorized but still have a cooking temp chart on a fridge magnet. There it is, at a glance.
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Absolutely.
TBF as a middle millennial, if you want me to click on the link you sent me, it had better not be a video
Whenever I've got the time to sit down and watch a video, it's going to be one of the million things I've already been meaning to watch.
An article can be consumed in way more situations
This goes both ways, though. I hate it when I'm linked to an article that describes at agonizing length something that was captured on video, with only the lightest smattering of commentary that adds any insight or context, and not even a working link to or embed of the footage.
Think of Anthony Weiner's furious, "The gentleman is correct in sitting!" (before his fall from grace), or Musk's Nazi salute that looked suspiciously like a Nazi salute, or George W. Bush winning a free pair of shoes.
The video of the event itself would take fifteen seconds to watch and I'll still feel the need to watch it after reading the article anyway.
If my friend sends me a TikTok as a source of information, I'm gonna start questioning my choices in friends (/s but also sorta not)
"Ummm" ... "yeah, ya know." "Ummm." "Jeeze, I hadn't thought." Scratch scratch scratch" ... supressed burp. "Sigh." "Hmmm....ummm." "Hahahahahaha."
Yeah, fuck all that. Give me the info: Issue. Rule. Analysis. Conclusion. The big video push is social media grooming for the algo.
I'm a slow reader and I still find articles faster and easier to parse than videos.
Zoomer here! Written articles are amazing for fast information, and I go to them when I want a solution to something I already have a decent understanding of. Videos are especially nice for something you haven't done before and want a real-time breakdown of the information.
I don’t need or want a video to do that for me though? I can breakdown information on my own as long as it’s presented to me, I don’t want everything spoon fed to me
Hallefuckinglujah!
Did someone just say something? I thought I heard an opinion but it must have been the wind. I was born in 84 and I remember there being older kids but I don't really remember much about them. I remember reading magazines and books and having the world revolve around me. I remember having to learn cursive, memorizing math tables, watching Mr. Wizard, I used a rotary phone, and I even understand a file system. Boomers and younger generations don't know how to use a terminal. The only thing that stumps me is the generation between me and the boomers. I remember someone being there but they just sort of blur together with the boomers now like they were always the same thing.
Conversely, don't send us AI generated filler either, please.
I agree completely. The only time I actually see benefit to video over print is with service guides and manuals. Unless you’re including a perfectly detailed exploded view, videos always seem to convey more information.
And especially fuck the manuals that lump an entire product line into one manual (looking at you, HP) when they can have wildly different hardware
Millenials also grew up reading everything, it's just that the teen years had the text on a screen. It's Gen Z that really had online video content from the start.
That would be great but I think OP's just gonna get a denial a denial a denial a denial a denial...
Yay, more forced myopic generational divide!
be as cool as gen X and we'll let you in the club
I’m good.
So long as it's not behind a paywall, or the "article" is just a literal transcription of a video.
When I'm looking at my phone, I want the original text so I can ~~read~~ skim it myself.
When I'm not looking at my phone, I want the video so I can continue not looking at my phone.
Ehh some articles are full of useless fluff with like a single paragraph worth of info that I actually need, but I have to read from the start to figure it out, at least on the video I can jump at different points to quickly find where the useful info is
Who are you, that can skim a video faster than skimming text? That's, like, the complete opposite of my lived experience 😂. What a rich melange of folks make up this world, eh.
Step 1 start video
Step 2 skip all introductory bullshit, usually about 5 mins
Step 3 - if pointless stuff is still playing jump further 5 to 10 Mins until worthy stuff starts playing.
Step 4 - repeat step 3 as needed till end of video
P.S. - Install Sponsorblock extension for YouTube. Which auto skips useless Ads and pointless section of any video that was voted for by the community of users
I'm glad that you have a workflow that works for you! I like to open up articles, instantly hit the 'reader mode' button, cmd+f for keywords, and hit 'next' until I find the relevant section. This usually takes just a few seconds to get to get meat (if there's anything worth skipping). One advantage is my internet connection isn't always great, so I only have to wait for a few kb of text to download (even on a shit connection that's not generally a lag I'm capable of noticing), whereas with videos I often have some loading issues. Also I hate the style of most presenters and can scroll back to the right point more easily in text articles if I've gone 'too far', so that's an approach that works for me.
Thanks for sharing! I've never heard of sponsor block, I rely on ublock origin (for Firefox, not the handicapped chrome version) when watching videos, and usually only watch videos that I actually want to watch, but I appreciate having another tool in my box.
Nobody is saying or implying videos are a more efficient way to consume information than reading... it's not this or that it's two different forms of media. Absolutely dumb tweet.
There are people who absolutely prefer videos to text.
A few years ago at work one of my tasks was writing up technical documentation. I'd write it up, get feedback, make tweaks, report complex errors upstream to improve or eliminate error messages, basically make the text as simple and straightforward as possible.
But over the years we'd get feedback, "Can this be a video?" and I didn't get it. I figured I must not be writing it correctly. I'd chat with people, I'd gather more feedback. People still wanted video. I asked people for video how I could improve. They literally just wanted me to read the text I wrote. I didn't get it.
Other folks on my team decided to make a few videos. The videos were just pictures of the text, the same pictures already included, and people reading it verbatim, plus a little background music. People loved it. Many people ignored it, but those that watched it, loved it. I still don't get it.
It depends what it is for me but text can be frustrating for learning. I don't retain read information well, I read slowly, I get distracted and can't multitask to focus when my eyes are locked up with text, and it all kinda blurs together and feels samey. With audio I can set it to double speed and still process well making it way faster to process than my read speed, I can multitask to stay focused better, I'm less likely to get eye strain, retain the info better. With audio and video I can link changes in the screen and audio in a broad sense to what was being said. Like "oh this part where the music changed right before switching from the three paragraph page to the four paragraph page is extra important" which helps me retain the topic while also giving me clues as to where to find information without running into all the text being samey
I don’t know a single millennial that uses TikTok. This is such a weird generalization.