YouTube
4 Life
YouTube has in many
ways shaped our lifestyle. YouTube is easy to use. Even someone who has zero
knowledge on computers can work his way around YouTube. Creating, uploading,
viewing and downloading of videos are as easy as 1-2-3. Also YouTube is a good
and inexpensive tool for advertising. If you’re in business, YouTube has the
facilities you need to gain more views for your ads. Whether you’re into
printing personalized shirts, laundry business or into web designing, YouTube
is the right place for you.
However, there are many
downfalls to this video website such as; whenever you upload a video in
YouTube, you are giving the whole world access to it. So if it’s a personal
video you choose to upload, you have just given Planet Earth access to your
personal life i.e. your real name, your exact address. Furthermore YouTube is
very lenient. Kids these days have unlimited access to computers at the
convenience of their own homes or at a nearby internet shop. Parents should be
on the look-out for the possible negative effects some sensitive videos may
bring. I know a pair of parents who refuse to let their kid watch any TV until
age two. They learned from somewhere that kids who are not exposed to
televisions in the first few years of their life tend to be more attentive and
have a longer span of memory (due to non-exposure to 30-seconder
commercials/advertisements). It makes me wonder now how YouTube’s sex scandals
and violence in various forms affect kids below ten years old.
Having said that I
guess it comes down to how important videos on the web are to you. If you’re
like me and refer to them frequently for everyday use, you probably think
YouTube has affected you in good way. YouTube and it videos has helped me I
many ways. I have participated in not only watching videos that have helped me
throughout my accounting class, or acquisition of a new language, and plenty of
hours of entertainment, but I have also created my own account. I have uploaded
my own videos and comments to help others, and give feedback to other member’s
uploaded videos. YouTube had been accelerating ever since it hit the web and
shows no signs of slowing down within the near future.
Link to one of my
favorite YouTube videos; WATCH IT!
This comment has been removed by the author.
ReplyDelete