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quasisocial 🏴
@quasisocial.bsky.social

incredible actually, this happened at my job recently and i was utterly confounded that our director was asking all of us to *read his slide deck in advance of a meeting* -- like, isn't that your job?

Lucre Snooker
@lucresnooker.bsky.social

data point: my older daughter (12) has often been assigned to create slides in situations where, if memory serves, i would have just had to write a paragraph or do a slide-less "presentation"/talk. and kids (girls?) LIKE slides. a Canva subscription was on her christmas list!

Lucre Snooker
@lucresnooker.bsky.social

i wonder if part of the story is also that it was always bizarrely difficult and annoying to integrate images into other primarily-text format like Word docs, so PowerPoint/Google Slides just ended up as the least-bad thing to fill that niche

dynomight
@dynomight.net

Yeah, I suspect that's part of it. There just aren't a lot of alternative ways for a non-techy type to combine a bunch of images and text together. (I guess the crazy things people do with spreadsheets also supports this theory?)