[blfr]

The new way of interacting with videos and other media online does warrant a different term. Many people really don't watch videos, they consume content, ie. scroll or swipe through an endless stream of tweets/videos/reddit posts stopping and then moving on.

It's just like watching a movie vs watching TV, reading versus paging through the newspaper, etc.

[Veen]

If people called that specific phenomenon "consumption", it wouldn't bother me. But they use it much more broadly.

[username90]

> Many people really don't watch videos, they consume content, ie. scroll or swipe through an endless stream of tweets/videos/reddit posts stopping and then moving on.

How is that different from plopping down the sofa, turn on the TV and watch the endless stream of content being broadcast to you? This isn't really a new thing, most people consumed TV that way before digital consumption became a thing.

[enriquto]

> It's just like watching a movie vs watching TV

yet here you use the same word without problem, don't you?

I guess an appropriate word for "casually reading" would be "browsing" ?