On the emergence of the post-writing web

Mostly a reaction to a Gawker story & Fusion story I read today.

I think it’s an age-based thing. People under a certain age are able to watch more stuff and they trend lately towards short-form video. It’s especially true for minorities where mainstream tv seems to have less useful for them, people are creating their own Nollywoods of content that serves their friends and becomes viral with the elite ones getting mainstream media deals.

But at the end of day, I’d always prefer to read an article. The videos are nice, so long as it has something to do with a story that I can read, but the noise gets old at times. But I have friends in their 20s who are like all up on the latest Vine stars and at any show I go to, every kid is Snapchatting everything.

It’ll be interesting to see how these models sustain when people have less time and get older. Facebook managed it by expanding its user base and enveloping parents, but when your friend groups are less cohesive through time and atrophy, there is just less time and attention for a multitude of networks.