Video Comments Would Be A Waste Of Time
Josh Catone has an awesomesauce post about the cons of integrating video comments into a sites commenting section and a poll asking whether or not you’d like to see it incorporated on ReadWriteWeb. I won’t rehash Catone’s posts, but he outlines some very big cons to adding video comments. TechCrunch was the first to make the move to add video comments and of course it has been imitated and duplicated. I understand that TechCrunch is only doing it to promote Seesmic. That’s fine and more power to them. It’s an interesting marketing strategy, but who’s going to fall for it? Here are three reasons why some won’t.
Not Enough Time
Video comments are, in general, a major time waster because of our hectic schedules. Recording it, uploading it, and then having to sit there and view it; do you notice how much time that’s taking up? You might as well just type your comment out and save readers the trouble. Readers barely have enough time to read an entire blog post, let alone sit and watch a video with a response that could’ve been typed out for scanning purposes.
Seesmic Decline
Video blogging, or vlogging, has yet to become a hit. This is not to be confused with Youtube videos that are uploaded by users of the service. As it pertains to Seesmic, this is a company that made headlines when it first launched, but has since died off. I fear that this is why TechCrunch has made the move to add video comments. While active users of Seesmic may find it to be a nice addition, I can’t help but ask, how many of you still actively use Seesmic?
Not For The Average User
If you think it’s for the average user, I’ll step on your big toe.
- The average user is not a visitor of TechCrunch.
- The average user is not going to leave a video comment.
- The average user would not be excited about this.
Not Revolutionary
If TechCrunch is trying to change the game, or become revolutionary with this addition, I don’t see it happening. If you plan on jumping on the bandwagon, I don’t recommend you do it unless your blog pertains to video blogging. I don’t own a webcam, so you won’t have to worry about seeing me participate. What do you think?
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