Do you like or dislike slideshows and videos in place of articles?

Question

I'm interested in hearing either opinion here, even though I clearly favor one over the other. I'm interested to see if anyone feels the same way I do, and also, I'm interested to hear from those with the opposite point of view. Please don't be offended by my opinion.

I prefer to read an article and if there is going to be a slideshow or video, to have it be optional or supplemental information. It quite irritates me to get excited about a headline, only to click on it and be led to a stupid slideshow or video. My excitement is immediately dampened when I see a slideshow or a video... so much so- that I usually click right out of it.

I think slideshows are moronic, because you have to click to a new page for every dozen or so words (do they just want all of those clicks on their site?). And videos make me wonder who on Earth isn't bright enough to just read an article that the writers figured it had to create a video to tell or show the people information instead. I feel like this type of news-presenting is engineered to dumb people down and to decrease attention spans.

I can understand- obviously- if the topic is something visual, but most topics can easily suffice with an article alone, and maybe some still pictures.

What do you think?

Answer 1

I can read far faster than a video can play. And videos tend to include unskippable ads as well. In some cases the ad is SHORTER than the video.



Yahoo is particularly bad about this. One or two sentences and then a 20 second video behind a 30 second ad.

Answer 2

What I prefer depends on the subject matter. If a subject is primarily visual (tornado damage, brushfires, an art installation, etc.), then a video conveys more information than an article can. For politics, world affairs, philosophy and other topics that are not visual per se, I prefer articles. I don't like slide shows. They are the ugly offspring of the marriage of an article and a video, the reduction of information to a frame-by-frame display with uninformative captions.

Answer 3

Though I love reading, watching slideshows is I think better since it is interactive and you use energy to gather and digest information.



Keep in mind that there is an slideshow maker from http://slide.ly/ that will help you make slideshows or presentations with relative ease and under 10 minutes . This is absolutely and with no hidden charges.



Create a login account or enter the site using your account in Facebook. Upload photos from your laptop or desktop or from Google Images, Flickr, Instagram, Picasa or from your Facebook albums or pictures. Select the song you want (from YouTube) and then a suitable theme (this comes with animation and transition effects). When you are done you can save and publish it. You can also post and share the slideshow in the timeline of your Facebook so your friends, relatives and colleagues will able to see it.



Enjoy!

Source(s):

http://slide.ly/

http://emilgen2011.hubpages.com/hub/Free-nice-slideshow-maker-online-How-to-make-a-slideshow-in-Slidelyly