Why I Hate Internet Videos
Posted by Sandy Berger on February 18th, 2008
Keeping up with technology is hard work. Everyday I scour the web for the latest tech news and the best products. I’ve been happily doing this for years, but now I am faced with videos everywhere. I really wanted to learn about a product that one of my tech journalist colleagues had posted on their website. When I clicked on the link, I saw that instead of an article, the review was a video. So I just kept on surfing. You see, I can read an entire article, or scan one for the important information much faster than I can watch a video. In most cases, the videos bore me because they are so slow moving. I guess all this shows my age. Even though I grew up in a television era, books and reading was always a mainstay. While growing up, I read much more than I watch TV. Today’s youngsters have grown up with television, plus video tapes, DVDs, and portable video players. I don’t think they read as much as we did. So they are much more used to videos. I like video on the Internet. I just don’t want everything to be in video format. I just started doing more videos on my Compu-KISS website. Many of my videos will have a text article to go along with them. That way my web visitors will have a choice. They can watch the video, read the article, or both. Sure wish more website, especially news and informational sites, would do the same.



