Re:YouTube CEO on Facebook video ambitions: 'They should get...
by eropple on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @01:12PM
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> Old-school text discussions seem to work for HN, why can't it work for Facebook?
People don't really read in the same way as you might have previously expected. ("Reading a short blurb or a tweet" is not the same thing.) Can't or don't want to, I don't know, but they don't. You see the edges of it here, too--tl;drs on HN posts, sometimes, that are less than a screenful of text. And people think you're "spending a lot of effort" when you bang out a post about as long as yours is--and, sometimes, try to frame it as a bad thing.
People don't really read in the same way as you might have previously expected. ("Reading a short blurb or a tweet" is not the same thing.) Can't or don't want to, I don't know, but they don't. You see the edges of it here, too--tl;drs on HN posts, sometimes, that are less than a screenful of text. And people think you're "spending a lot of effort" when you bang out a post about as long as yours is--and, sometimes, try to frame it as a bad thing.
I tend to think Thomas Pettitt has a point[1].
[1] - https://archives.cjr.org/the_audit/the_future_is_medieval.ph...