Maybe I'm old, or maybe I'm not a visual or aural learner, but I don't get much out of watching Youtube videos. Do you find them a better learning tool than reading a well produced document or tutorial?
For many in younger generations (including myself), watching a youtube video - even a dry educational one - scratches an "I'm being entertained" itch, perhaps born of being raised watching television. Something deeply rooted adores fast-paced audiovisual stimuli. Reading a well written document does not have the same effect. It's troubling.
I prefer to read to learn, overall, but I really like that a video of someone doing the thing I want to learn will communicate their assumptions and less tangible knowledge via their actions.
Twilio does an excellent job with their Terms of Service and Privacy Policies. For example, their Terms of Service has a "plain english" version in a right hand column, along with the legalese in the right:
I'm not sure I see the benefit of that. If the plain English version is good enough to be legally binding and fully explanatory, they could just use it. If it's not good enough, but is still presented as part of the ToS, then it has the potential to introduce ambiguity that could override the legalese version. Either way, it makes the ToS somewhere between 25% and 50% longer than the legalese version alone.
But it is still maddeningly long. Even with the plain English version, who would ever read and digest that before signing up for Twilio (other than a lawyer)?
I'd hope who is about to build their business around the service and sign a contract in the name of their business to use it could take some time to read it... if not they shouldn't be signing their company up for it.
At the bottom it says, "By clicking the button, you agree to our legal policies."
Ignoring the ambiguity of that statement, it seems that someone can't even sign up for a free trial without agreeing to the full set of terms. Does that mean a business needs to make a complete legal review of the policies before an employee can sign up to _test_ the service and decide if they want to use it? How often does that actually happen?
If it's not going to be used in production, which a free trial presumably wouldn't be, then you probably don't need a full review of the terms although it would be a good idea to take care of it.
This would be a little bad for Google's free services.
Threads here frequently mention that Google's paid services are decent, but not here. People pay for Google Fi! Not only do they have awful support, but now they have issues like this.
This is nothing new, although the phenomenon is probably more common now.
In my case, I met my husband online in 2002, on IRC. We were separated by a continent, and never met in person until 2009. We finally got married in 2013 and have been together ever since. I have online friends with similar experiences, usually where they never meet. But sometimes it works out.
Maybe I'm old, or maybe I'm not a visual or aural learner, but I don't get much out of watching Youtube videos. Do you find them a better learning tool than reading a well produced document or tutorial?