Facebook Overestimated Key Video Metric for Two Years

Re:Facebook Overestimated Key Video Metric for Two Years by thirdsun on Friday September 23, 2016 @01:37AM (#12562550)

I disagree. I see small auto playing videos all the time in reviews or on feature pages, explaining little concepts or details that are much easier to grasp in a few seconds of (silent) video than in a paragraph or two.

The alternative is going back to large, low quality and bandwidth-heavy gifs, which isn't the better option in my opinion.

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Re:Facebook Overestimated Key Video Metric for Two Years by DanBC on Friday September 23, 2016 @03:30AM (#12562925)

That's a legitimate use of video, but not of autoplaying video.

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Re:Facebook Overestimated Key Video Metric for Two Years by joshstrange on Friday September 23, 2016 @09:24AM (#12564367)

I'm not sure, I actually enjoy the autoplaying videos on FB. I probably wouldn't click 99% of videos I see but silently autoplaying it I get to see a few seconds without having to interact and then decide if I want to keep scrolling or click on it to get sound.

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