I’ll watch how-to videos if I need to see how to do something, usually while I’m doing it. But I basically never sit around watching youtube.
Huh, that’s interesting, I’m like the complete opposite. I just can’t stand most text because of the whole 5 seconds of video tells me more about something than 20 paragraphs of shallow words.
I largely prefer text content.
Just skip over the shallow words and only read the d e e p ones
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Generally prefer text here too. It’s too easy for me to get distracted when trying to watch/listen to a video and it just ends up being background noise.
and fuck a podcast
For technical stuff I much prefer diagrams, animations, and short videos.
If the video is showing me something, great. If it’s telling me something, I’d rather read the words than listen to them. And if it’s not a process or action, chances are photos or diagrams are as good or better than video.
It’s a lot easier for me to discern whether or not I am interested in what they have to say if it is text. And if I’m not I can skim or just skip it. I dont like skipping around video.
Much rather read something than watch someone talk at me
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Bullshit.
What do you listen to while walking to the coffee shop or grocery store?
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Only way I can listen to those is when I’m cleaning my place or riding the train.
Gangster rap
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podcasts are for planes
and I’m all out of flights
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Nothing? The birds, the wind in the trees, the trains, the ferry’s horn, my footsteps. Why do we have to listen to something all the time?
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Listening to birds and wind and trees and such is what I listen to when I’m going to sleep.
Other than that, good point.
A year or two I realized every conversation with people my age was using podcasts as prompts. I realized the main reason I never listen to them is that I don’t drive. Everyone here drives and blasts podcasts.
Airplanes are Nintendo time anyway shartmo
Podcasts are for when I’m trying to sleep and I need an external voice to muffle the constant internal anxiety loop
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yall really grind my gears!!!
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NPR is for driving.
Music is for riding, running, studying, maybe making breakfast on weekends.
Podcasts are for walking.
One day I stopped listening to NPR in the car and started listening to podcasts, and since then I have never missed NPR.
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