Now it's become painful, this, more hours of video are posted each day than ever I can hope to watch, and off of my favorite "inspiration" sites more and more articles are replaced by videos, the morning "routine" of catching up on the interweb is thwarted by the fact that catching up, even if I watch 2 or 3 videos simultaneously, can never take place. I had reading mastered, could quickly skim and misquote an article in a minute or less, but now I have to watch each and every video, even carefully selected for what's of relevance to me they are overwhelming, this move to video and streaming content, it has to stop.
Really. It turns the internet from a forum or exchange of information into a playground for the mentally bereft, who couldn't possibly be expected to read a two or three hundred word article, so can become victim of a 15 second ad and then 2 to 10 minute video that provides roughly 30 words of information or value. The timewasting is extreme, even by my most generous of standards. Information is slowly falling prey to the lowest common denominator.
And really, even this rant is lost, to be truly effective it should be preceded by a 15 second ad and jauntily animated or presented in a 2 or three minute video with infographics that illustrate the demise of the world wide web. At which point I would be part of the problem...