What is YouTube?

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What is YouTube?

       Wikipedia Says that "YouTube is a video sharing website on which users can upload and share videos." But the real question is what is not youtube? As goofy as that sounds it is so true. No matter what you are searching for you can find it on Youtube. In the video above it discuss how it all started with a video at the zoo, it no longer is just simple videos such as the first one. There is everything from dancing,singing, talking, and even news reports. It has become global and is growing every single day."Youtube was growing by 75 percent each week" The Youtube Reader

Daily Impact

        Everybody has those awful days where everything just goes completely wrong and nothing turns out the way they want it too. I have these days every once in awhile and i always turn tou YouTube to cheer me up. You can always find a funny video that will make you smile no matter what. I have always loved to watch Americas Funniest Home Videos and pretty much every single episode is loaded on too YouTube. Not only does this website cheer people up but is also used in classrooms around the world. Teachers use this site to show videos of the news, weather, and other topics they might be discussing in the classroom. I personally have experience many classes that use YouTube for their presentation. One of my professors liked to use the Bed Intruder video for many diffrent things such as black face.

Establishing Identity

         As well all know Justin Bieber started his identity on YouTube. It all started out as him just singing for the fun of it and a company found his video. He is a very talented singer but im sure the face that he is very good looking and has the cutest smile helps out alot. Not all people establish a good name for themselves but many people try too. On YouTube their are videos of people who can not sing at all but still have thousands of hits because people enjoy making fun of them or having a good laugh for the day. We all know that we are all guilty of this, but in reality they do it to themselves. YouTube has influnced many peoples future and made many people millions of dollars because of them either being really talented or being really dumb and acting a fool.

The Future

        

         There are many things that could happen in the future. The fact of the matter is the entire future is in our hands. We are the ones that will decide if the next up and coming star will come from YouTube. We can either send tons of links to one funny video or we can let the millions and millions of videos that are on YouTube go unwatched. The generation that is living now will be the generation that chooses if many other websites will go out of buisness and stop uploading videos to their site. What will happen when it comes to this, an the website becomes completely overloaded and will start to make you pay for the videos to be uploaded. Will this cause audiences to stop watching? Or is it so addiction that millions of people would pay money for it? Its up to us to decide.

Video Memorials

          Video Memorials are something that i do not understand at all. I feel as if they are weird and not suppose to be uploaded to the web. I can understnad if the memorial video is for a famous person or someone who is a very significant person in our world, but not if it is just your best friend. Im sure the only person or people that are even watching the one about someone who is not known are all friends of that person. Therefore i think those should just be uploaded to a facebook, or myspace page. Yes, these videos are very important to there loved ones and friends but is it really necessary for the entire world to be able to see them?