Thread by @ThyConsigliori

Here's what I'm going to do, starting today. I am going to explore the Help offerings at each of the platforms I'm learning. I'll post today's video below, and then comment just a tiny bit.

2) Here's the video I just watched:

3) I repeat - I've stated this in previous analysis - that this is NOT the way I learn. Well, it's not my preferred mode of learning. That means, I have to learn how to learn this way. I have to shout, now: I HATE VIDEO INSTRUCTION. I want textual instruction. Please.

4) I see I need another screenshot. I'll go snag it now...

Please note, I am at the Forums section of CloutHub. You can see where I may go to "Settings," on the menu to the left.

5) After I clicked on my "Help" link, this is what I see:

6) Once there, I just scroll down until I find the spot catalogued in the first image shown above. Seriously, you really do have to play with this. Click on links. Scroll up and down. Be ready to be confused and be okay with it, until you find some help you need.

7) Now let's talk about the video, lesson one, How to Add Your Profile Picture. With some silly pride, I brag that I had NO need of this video. I was able to figure out how to add my Profile Picture on my own, no problem.

8) Then, starting my path of learning the platform, I watched this first video and gained absolutely nothing from it. It's not only due to me not learning from videos readily. It's that for me, the content of the video was already obvious before I watched it. So I was bored.

9) But let's pretend I didn't already know how to add my Profile Picture. The learning on offer is beyond impossible for me to master. It goes too fast, even though it's a slow, boring video. It requires that I retain what is shown. Retention. Let's talk about that.

10) Truth is, I do NOT want to retain such information. I just want to do what needs to get done and then forget all about it. Demanding that I retain the information in order to use it is a HUGE imposition. Written instructions can be on one screen, while I execute on another.

11) Yet, perhaps CloutHub is right and I am wrong. How so? Maybe today's sophisticated technology user has a comfortable Random Access Memory mode in brain. Take menus, for instance. I NEVER remember where I've been nor how I got there.

12) I suspect that my children and grandchildren have NO problem with that. They walk through a menu, remember it unconsciously, effortlessly, and happily just do stuff. These videos have OUTSTANDING production quality. I even like the guitar music.

13) They're slow, kind, and gentle. I imagine an old time master saying "hush" to his apprentice, "just watch me." This mode of action capture without words is ancient. Many if not most ancient teachers believed in showing, not telling.

14) And perhaps that's the real point. Maybe I have to build up a new Random Access Memory function in my brain, to start to catch up to the chilluns. I hate that, but I'll do the work. And, if you want to master CloutHub, I imagine you're going to have to do the work too.

15) Please remember, I'm @ThyConsigliori at CloutHub and follow me there. I haven't started it yet, but my new 100% follow back rule will soon be in effect there.

Head on over, and comment on this posting:

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16) I haven't turned to Telegram yet but soon will. My next step this morning will be to write up a gab. Remember, they offer up to 3,000 characters per gab. A "gab" is the equivalent of a "tweet." I have cracked their code on that strategy.

Oh, I'm @PatScopelliti there.

17) I just added this picture as my profile image at Gab. This is me from my Senior year in high school, on our retreat at our camp called Little Grassy Lake, no kidding. This was in my senior yearbook. Someone caught me sound asleep.

18) If you go there, you'll see this fabulous image. And how appropo to our conversation?

19) Here's a screenshot of my Gab Timeline. You can see how much simpler, and more like Twitter, this interface is, compared to CloutHub's.

20) So, what I'm going to do now is write up a gab, with up to 3,000 characters, attempting to express my current social media, patriotic mission. Do follow me over there. But, I'll post it both here at Twitter and over at CloutHub too.

Today's thread ends nicely at precisely #20.

It's a good thread. You should pass it on to your fellow patriot friends. We own social media. Now, let's take full possession of our owning!