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Lately I’ve been spending a bit more time on Facebook, since the decline of Twitter and the eventual transition into X.
A couple of days ago after getting very disturbed by something I observed on Threads, that I couldn’t (still can’t) wrap my mind around. I found myself on Facebook strolling the videos. Something I DO NOT DO… I can’t stand 97% of videos on the interwebs. Personally, I’d rather read instructions. Yeah, I’m’ one of those people. I’m also (perhaps ironically?) a film person, as in used to use actual film, as an art form, because it was beautiful stuff.
I’m not against digital images, at all. They are just another art form, like oil painting versus clay and fired glazes used to make ceramic art, for tens of, thousands of years. They just aren’t the same thing. They are each their own stuff.
Get to my point already? The types of videos most commonly shared on social media are… very slow, never seem to get to their promised punch line (click bait), apparently, on purpose? Are they keeping you there, because of adds on the side of the page or other area of your phone, if you are using FB on a phone, are there adds chosen for you, with your meta-data there, based on the length of the videos?
Duh? So what? Your point? I know artists animators and filmmakers can and do make better short videos. Why aren’t we (the collective we) watching those?
Yes, I do look at statistics and of course, Facebook is competing for the masses time/attention with YouTube. Etc… So, as the money goes, I have again, answered my own question. – Just not the quality question of why we spend our time, watching these, psychology based anger-equals-clicks, slow, boring IMO, -- why these videos?! … #question.
Again and again, I answer my own questions. The lizard brain (if you let it) will watch cute animals, and things that make us angry (like hurt animals) or people being mean to other people – apparently for hours.
Soooooooooooo? (my favorite word lately, is so with too many ‘o’s as a question, to release stress. Like a good exhale.
Soooooooooo, ... -- I am asking, because that is what I do. Question and triple-fact-check everything, ...
sincerely, and (I suspect) possibly one of THE original childless “cat” ladies,
☮+💚(peace and love), @Uva_Be
1 comment:
Ironically to comment I had two switch back to chrome, which I had abandoned because it wasn't loading silly little videos.
1. 'Cat lady' seems to be a label that frustrated men put onto content women in an attempt to soothe their own bruised egos when they should instead be looking in word.
2. Thos click bait videos seem to generate a ton of comments about how it wasn't worth the wait or the time stamp a person needs to fast forward to, this feeding the algorithmic god of Engagement.
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