Did Facebook’s faulty data push publishers to make terrible decisions on video?

Re:Did Facebook’s faulty data push publishers to make terrib... by mattkevan on Friday October 19, 2018 @06:54PM (#18260675)

Reading is way quicker than watching a video. Speech is just too slow.

If an informational video doesn’t have a transcript or a way of speeding it up I’m not interested. At work we have a subscription to Lynda.com and while the content is okay, the only way the videos are bearable is to watch them at 2x speed.

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Re:Did Facebook’s faulty data push publishers to make terrib... by Tsubasachan on Saturday October 20, 2018 @05:18AM (#18262484)

Yeah people in videos talk slow. They also do the whole introduction thing.

Videos are good for ads. And videos are interesting I guess if you actually CARE about the guy who talks in it. For information and learning: text.

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Re:Did Facebook’s faulty data push publishers to make terrib... by mattkevan on Saturday October 20, 2018 @07:57AM (#18262844)

Agreed, there’s generally a lot of filler and intros for about 30 seconds to a minute of genuinely useful information.

I guess it’s the same as most pop businesses books: there’s about a blog post’s worth of material, padded out with case studies, anecdotes and other fluff to reach the page count.

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