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Originally Posted by lumpynose
Sounds like you haven't hung out on forums where there are a lot of young people. On the one that I was on, well over 90% of the time they'd post a supposedly interesting or informative link, to a youtube video. Rarely, if ever, to something written. The other thing that I noticed is that when responding to someone, they loved to use an animated gif, or a static one with text added to it. And they thought doing that was so clever.
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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
I hate those in the book reviews at Goodreads. Just tells me that review is worthless.
Nothing wrong with an occasional humorous image in a forum response though.
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Occasionally I will look up a book on Goodreads to help determine if I might want to read it - if the reviews are full of gifs and/or photos of actors that the reviewer thinks represent characters in the book, I figure I am not in the book's target demographic!
I don't spend a lot of time on Youtube. I use it primarily for these things:
- Background scenery on my TV via Roku or Chromecast - like a nice beach scene or waterfall with nature sounds.
- Music
- Product reviews -though sometimes I have to start watching and reject several really badly done reviews before finding a useful one. Some people spend way too much time rambling on about random stuff that has nothing to do with the product. Also you have to wonder why someone who posts a lot of product reviews has never bothered to get a tripod or other stand for their camera.
- Help for something I need to do on my smartphone or computer. Though I generally prefer written instructions, sometimes the videos can be useful if well done as they show someone actually going through the steps. Though I HATE if I discover that the help video is nothing but frame after frame of text! Why not just post an article/blog/whatever?