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Post by OziRiS on Jan 14, 2014 17:50:42 GMT
How do you feel about the new show format with comments rolling over the screen from both Twitter and Facebook?
I find it extremely annoying, taking away focus from what's actually going on in the show. I've found myself missing small bits here and there because I can't help reading the useless comments when they pop up.
Am I the only one?
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Post by GTCGreg on Jan 14, 2014 18:52:37 GMT
Too bad they don't do it like closed captioning where you can select to turn it on or off.
It might be more appropriate if the show was being aired live and the hosts could respond to some of the comments, but on a show that was recorded months or even years ago? I see no point.
If someone wants to see the comments, they can always log into Facebook or Twitter. No reason to force them on the rest of us.
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Post by Cybermortis on Jan 14, 2014 22:10:44 GMT
From what I can understand this is just a variation of what they did last year and the year before, when they had cast members answering tweets about episodes as they were being aired for the first time. So the replies and tweets are in real time.
Someone mentioned to me that they did this for Dangerous Toys as well - it was mentioned in relation to Jamie having been ill during filming of DT. If true this would mean that Adam and Jamie took two hours out of what I'd assume is a very busy schedule just to answer some questions.
I'd guess, and it is a guess, is that this might be with a partial eye towards DVD/iTunes releases of these episodes. As such comments and trivia would probably be easier (and cheaper) to do than trying to get the cast to do a commentary track.
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Post by OziRiS on Jan 14, 2014 23:10:58 GMT
Whatever the reason behind it, I was rather hoping one of my favorite shows wouldn't go down this path.
I just hate this whole "attentionspan of an ADHD suffering gnat" culture that social media and smart phones have lead to. It's like no one under the age of 30 can focus on just one thing for more than 10 seconds and everyone "needs to be heard" all the time. What do I care if someone from New Jersey thinks Kari looks hot in her R2D2 dress? He's more than welcome to think that, but how about rather than giving him the option to let the rest of us know, you give the rest of us the option to not HAVE to know? Is that really too much to ask?
I'm not on Facebook or Twitter or Instagram or Google+ or wahtever all of these sites are called and you know why? THIS CRAP!!! I don't want to know what random people think about random things, but apparantly I might as well sign up now, because there doesn't seem to be a way around it anymore! It's either detatch myself completely from the world or suffer every stupid "L00ky!1! me R funz on da TVz!" every time I try to get some input!
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Post by Cybermortis on Jan 15, 2014 3:21:43 GMT
Keep in mind that any comments that make it to air would be those found most interesting/funny by whomever is keeping track of the twitter feed. So like the live 'chat' they had before only a few comments are going to be re-tweeted to the world.
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Post by The Urban Mythbuster on Jan 15, 2014 3:36:53 GMT
Social Media streaming during shows seems to be the MO for a lot of shows on DC lately.
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Post by breesfan on Jan 17, 2014 2:40:30 GMT
I don't care for that much really. But glad it doesn't cover up the closed caption or I'd be mad.
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Post by the light works on Jan 17, 2014 5:59:05 GMT
Social Media streaming during shows seems to be the MO for a lot of shows on DC lately. not just DC. it's fashionable in general. as for me - if I wanted to read people's inanity, I'd start following twitter. |
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Post by silverdragon on Jan 18, 2014 11:41:00 GMT
Dangerous.
You just know some twit will try to twit something that will get past the censors.
It also detracts from watching the show.
If I wanted socially inept [deleted by my own censors] ijurts trying to comment on what I was watching, I would not be watching this show?....
Who's idea was this?... can you have a word and get it removed?...
I say this from the experience of watching another show (Not MB's) with a "Feed" along the bottom, and finding that I actually missed part of the show, and had to rewind it, because I was distracted by this bottom feed....
I seriously considered Duct Tape ...
To hold a piece of card over the lower part of the screen to mask off the twit-o-sphere.
I seriously wondered on the complete irony of the remark I saw which read..
Erm... no, actually I didnt, because I was distracted watching what YOU WERE WRITING .....
[racepalm]
I also to duct tape the ijusrt responsible for feeding the comments to the screen to his chair to prevent him allowing any more dross to intrude.
In the past, shows have used this to add extra content, such as exacts of instructions, or warnings, to give up this important space to "Can us give a shout to all da small not important gang cos dis is da only chance we ever got to big up our useless selfs?.."
Just when will happy birthday mom get evolved into paid adverts for crud you dont want?...
Dangerous.
And also worth me saying that investigations are being made into Add-Blockers for TV....
Hate all those adds from Loan companies?... someone hates them more than you do, and wants to work out a way of having them removed, automatically.
This may only work on "Delay TV", but if it gets serious, I want some of that.
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Post by OziRiS on Jan 19, 2014 0:01:43 GMT
I especially hate the Twitter comments because of all the #JamieWantsBigBoom #RubberDucky @hometownchilicookoff crap in there that makes the message almost impossible to read. Not only am I wasting my time looking at the bottom of the screen instead of the show itself, I'm not even making it through half the message before it's gone again because I have to sift through all that garbage to understand what the Hades they're trying to say, so I'm actually missing BOTH the show AND the messages that are making me miss the show!!!  |
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Post by the light works on Jan 19, 2014 4:50:18 GMT
I still stand by my motto that a singular twitter posting should be known as a "twit"
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Post by silverdragon on Jan 19, 2014 10:00:50 GMT
I am having a dilemma that although is a no-brainer, I cant be seen to offend....
One of a good friends relatives is a twit, and I need to find a polite way of telling them to stick it where the sun doesn't shine....
Now I can deal with my own Mum wondering why I dont watch the God-Spot Songs of Praise on UK tv, because I can silence her with "Its too religious for me and the Music is so bad I end up wanting to throw up", but this person "Did you see that last Kardashians?..."
I reply that I would rather sit and watch Concrete set, but that is the red rag to the bull, why dont I watch it, everyone else is, dont I want to know what everyone is talking about?...
No one I know mentions the show. They are sensible.
They MUST!!!...
And this is where the bomb shell is dropped... its all over Twitter....
what she is looking for is the bit I DO NOT TWIT.
I then get an attempted half hour lecture about how socially inept I am because of that, and I should know, if I am to be taken seriously about being technological, I should at lest know how to work twits.
What she is looking for is a "Convert", with emphasis on Con?...
I leave, after about 5 mins, with "You are boring the skull of me..."
My Friend is not happy with Relative, they were asked to leave, but thats beside the point, they have learnt that there is some form of competition to "Get everyone you meet on Twitter"....
The NEW craze is nut just to get someone else to quote you, but someone NEW to twit to quote you?...
Now this all sounds suspiciously like the mighty psot count
Which is an old Troll term meaning a game where an inconsequential thread is kept alive by creating argument for argument sake, the higher the psot count, the higher the score.....
So my Dilemma, how not to be rude, but how to get the message home that I know what you are doing, and is completely stupid.
Or do I just in my own way wrap a slice of lemon round a large gold brick and drop it on their head?...
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Post by the light works on Jan 19, 2014 15:13:42 GMT
I am having a dilemma that although is a no-brainer, I cant be seen to offend.... One of a good friends relatives is a twit, and I need to find a polite way of telling them to stick it where the sun doesn't shine.... Now I can deal with my own Mum wondering why I dont watch the God-Spot Songs of Praise on UK tv, because I can silence her with "Its too religious for me and the Music is so bad I end up wanting to throw up", but this person "Did you see that last Kardashians?..." I reply that I would rather sit and watch Concrete set, but that is the red rag to the bull, why dont I watch it, everyone else is, dont I want to know what everyone is talking about?... No one I know mentions the show. They are sensible. They MUST!!!... And this is where the bomb shell is dropped... its all over Twitter.... what she is looking for is the bit I DO NOT TWIT. I then get an attempted half hour lecture about how socially inept I am because of that, and I should know, if I am to be taken seriously about being technological, I should at lest know how to work twits. What she is looking for is a "Convert", with emphasis on Con?... I leave, after about 5 mins, with "You are boring the skull of me..." My Friend is not happy with Relative, they were asked to leave, but thats beside the point, they have learnt that there is some form of competition to "Get everyone you meet on Twitter".... The NEW craze is nut just to get someone else to quote you, but someone NEW to twit to quote you?... Now this all sounds suspiciously like the mighty psot countWhich is an old Troll term meaning a game where an inconsequential thread is kept alive by creating argument for argument sake, the higher the psot count, the higher the score..... So my Dilemma, how not to be rude, but how to get the message home that I know what you are doing, and is completely stupid. Or do I just in my own way wrap a slice of lemon round a large gold brick and drop it on their head?... my response would be to one-up the one upmanship. "you mean you are still feeding those attention whores? I lost interest in their playacting a long time ago. No, I don't follow them on twitter, I got bored with it." the important thing to remember is to maintain the attitude that what she is doing is out of fashion, and anybody who is anybody has moved on to better pursuits. when you think about it, people like the Kardashians are basically the class clowns of the entertainment industry. |
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Post by OziRiS on Jan 20, 2014 23:51:11 GMT
I've tried that approach but was told I ended up sounding like one of those goth kids that walks around in dark clothes and calls everyone else "conformists"  I usually take the "you want to hand off your personal life to anyone with an interest, no matter how sinister, you go right ahead" approach. It's mostly Fakebook that people want me to join and even though I've never joined, I've had enough people "need to show me" something someone has posted to know how it works. If it comes to a real discussion I break out the story of someone I know who thought she had her privacy settings in order. Then one day she posted in a "private group" that she was going on vacation for two weeks with a picture of her and her husband in front of their very nice house and very nice Mercedes SLK with their bags packed. Some friends of hers "liked" and commented on the post, which was then relaied to their friends whose friends then "liked" their post and so on and so forth. When they came home from their vacation the house was emptied and there was a note on the kitchen counter that said: "Thanks for the heads up on FB" The burglars were caught when trying to fence off some extremely rare silver figurines that were flagged by the insurance company and it turned out that the Fakebook post via various "likes" had gone from her "private group" and seven links out to some unsavory character that neither she, nor her closest friends in that group had ever had contact with in any form. IIRC it was something along the lines of a cousin of a brother of a friend of a friend of a friend of a sister of a friend that broke into their house and stole their stuff. All because of a line of "likes" from a so called "private group". That's how well protected your privacy is on these sites and that's why I'm not a member. If I want you to know where I am and what I'm doing and you're not already there with me, I can call you or I can send you a text. If I don't do either of those things, it's because I don't want you to know! |
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Post by the light works on Jan 21, 2014 4:19:31 GMT
I've tried that approach but was told I ended up sounding like one of those goth kids that walks around in dark clothes and calls everyone else "conformists" I usually take the "you want to hand off your personal life to anyone with an interest, no matter how sinister, you go right ahead" approach. It's mostly Fakebook that people want me to join and even though I've never joined, I've had enough people "need to show me" something someone has posted to know how it works. If it comes to a real discussion I break out the story of someone I know who thought she had her privacy settings in order. Then one day she posted in a "private group" that she was going on vacation for two weeks with a picture of her and her husband in front of their very nice house and very nice Mercedes SLK with their bags packed. Some friends of hers "liked" and commented on the post, which was then relaied to their friends whose friends then "liked" their post and so on and so forth. When they came home from their vacation the house was emptied and there was a note on the kitchen counter that said: "Thanks for the heads up on FB" The burglars were caught when trying to fence off some extremely rare silver figurines that were flagged by the insurance company and it turned out that the Fakebook post via various "likes" had gone from her "private group" and seven links out to some unsavory character that neither she, nor her closest friends in that group had ever had contact with in any form. IIRC it was something along the lines of a cousin of a brother of a friend of a friend of a friend of a sister of a friend that broke into their house and stole their stuff. All because of a line of "likes" from a so called "private group". That's how well protected your privacy is on these sites and that's why I'm not a member. If I want you to know where I am and what I'm doing and you're not already there with me, I can call you or I can send you a text. If I don't do either of those things, it's because I don't want you to know!that's why I stick with my antisocial networking site. |
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Post by silverdragon on Jan 21, 2014 8:06:47 GMT
Dang.... I never thought that way of wrong?.....
No, that sentence doesn't make sense the first time you read it, its a common phrase round here to note you are thinking on the wrong lines?...
I never considered trying to get one-upmanship on whats fashionable... as I stated some time back, I am zero-fashion-tolerance, I dont care enough about it to think that way.
I will take your words and guard them.
I have an inkling the subject may have changed next time I see that person, but I can almost guarantee that her life is controlled by what happens on that 3-by-4 screen she constantly needs updates from?...
I need to be slightly aware of whats "News" then....
Or perhaps not.
I just need to dismiss her importance updates as old news.....
I dont actually need to know what her interests are?...
I may be getting the hang of the idea there?....
Thanks, sometimes you need a different universe to think outside of...
As for advertising absence away from home, my Kids have been warned against this.
They understand why, after one or two stories on the above lines....
And one instance where our Next Door Neighbour was disturbed by one of their friends who was kicking up a storm at our front door...
"How many times do you got to knock before you get the idea they aint home?..."
They were refusing to accept we were not in, because, as a friend, our Kid had not "Asked for permission to go on holiday"... or something like that?....
They got de-friended soon after because of that "Why did you not tell me when you were going out" attitude.
Now, we tell people when we get BACK that we been on holiday....
And we do not post photo's of vacation on line until we get back either....
And I have also shown my kids how to disable the geo-tage on their pictures.
One of my kids had someone tell them, down to about 12 inches, exactly where they were stood when they took a photo.....
It frightened them...
It scares the crud outa me as well....
ALL Exif data is stripped from any photo I publish.
It annoys a certain camera club who cant see what lens I used without actually asking me?...
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Post by the light works on Jan 21, 2014 14:43:13 GMT
exactly - speak as though you are further ahead of the curve.
I am not quite so concerned about geotags - though my regular camera is incapable of such twaddle - because I don't upload until I have been home, edited them for size, and prepared them for upload. - except at my antisocial networking site; where vacation plans often involve collaborating to meet up with each other somewhere.
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