[Nursie]

Honestly, maybe I'm just some old, out-of-touch luddite, but I think that using videos to pass information is sub-optimal all around.

Unless we're actually showing audio-visual phenomena, a page of text is almost always more useful to me. I can absorb it at my speed. I can go back and forth within it easily. I can search it. I can copy bits out if I need to. It's just better.

[chronogram]

Nothing to do with your age, it's always been either a difference between users of the media, convenience for the producer, that it's easier to monetize video, or the ability for instant feedback when it's in-person or live.

Socrates to Plato perhaps: maybe I'm just old but using text to pass information is just making your memory weak.

[albert_e]

you are not wrong or outdated

different people prefer different methods of learning

they may or may not be more effective -- just that they are more preferred -- even if for no other reason than ease

sitting down with a page of text and focusing on it to learn new information is becoming harder and harder for me personally ...with the bad habits of constant smartphone and social media use

I fall back to have someone do the reading and explain it to me

videos let us pause / rewind / skip / slowdown as needed ..so I am noticing that I am depending on his control also and sometimes zoning out of videos too ...

...which sometimes bites me when I am watching a live stream that has no rewind or worse ..attending a real meeting and hear someone explain something at length

[BlueTemplar]

But video controls are tremendously worse than just being able to focus your eyes at any specific portion of the page in an instant ?

[gibolt]

Subtitles matter! While a video is not equivalent to just text, reading at 3x with audio is similar to why people enjoy audio books.

Visual content is a bonus, to remain more engaged and maybe impart information via a third medium

[sb057]

They key advantage to video (and the reason why YouTube seems to keep expanding to encompass more and more subcultures) is that video formatting is also inclusive to text, audio, and still image formatting. You can only upload text to a blog, and you can only upload audio to SoundCloud, but you can upload everything to YouTube.

[cthor]

Blogs are perfectly capable of embedding media as appropriate, including videos.

On the contrary to your suggestion, blogs (or more specifically, webpages) are what can do more than anything else, since they can also feature interactive media. See <https://ncase.me/trust/> for an example.

Whether or not this is expected, standard, or the author thinks it's worth the effort is another thing.

[Nursie]

> video formatting is also inclusive to text

Are we talking slide shows on a youtube video here? Because to me those are probably the worst of all worlds. Low information density and not searchable.