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Re:TikTok hits 1.5B downloads, outperforming Instagram by RandallBrown on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @10:55AM (#21574236)
Videos encode way more information than a snippet of text.

If anything, social media is moving the opposite way, where people are requiring more stimulation and information.

Re:TikTok hits 1.5B downloads, outperforming Instagram by TeMPOraL on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @02:58PM (#21577546)
More information, at least in the information-theory sense, but much less knowledge. I.e. videos are much less efficient than text, or even static pictures. Take a second of the most insightful video you can find, and in the same space, you could easily cram an entire textbook on the same topic, complete with high-resolution images.
Re:TikTok hits 1.5B downloads, outperforming Instagram by asdff on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @03:12PM (#21577746)
Just pulling a transcript of a given video, timing your reading, and comparing it to the length of the video would make this evident. And that's if the information delivery is perfectly optimized, which in most cases it's not. Compare 1hr of CNN to a 1hr college political science lecture, for example.
Re:TikTok hits 1.5B downloads, outperforming Instagram by thawaway1837 on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @10:57AM (#21574261)
I think it’s somewhere in between.

More stimulation but less information.

Re:TikTok hits 1.5B downloads, outperforming Instagram by randompi on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @10:30PM (#21580873)
> people are requiring more stimulation and information

Perhaps I'm old, but TikTok failed to get me back over and over again.

Re:TikTok hits 1.5B downloads, outperforming Instagram by stjohnswarts on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @05:06PM (#21578824)
depends on the image and the text. teens dumping goo on their brother's head and then running away are essentially useless compared to a wiki paragraph on the holocaust.