Tuesday, March 13, 2007
Do youTUBE?
I have recently discovered my fascination with the site everyone around the world knows as youtube.  This site is open to anyone who wishes to post videos which they want to share with others.  If you visit the link above, you will start to understand who I am so fascinated with this site.  I find 80% of the videos I view to be a complete waste of my time, yet that other 20% consist of people who create awesome videos.  Youtube.com's logo is "broadcast yourself," and I feel this tells a great deal about people growing up in the 21st century.  Without the internet, there are not many ways to get nation wide publicity or people from random islands in the middle of the ocean such as Hawaii to view your videos.  Of course you could get immediate nation wide publicity by streaking in front of the White House, being a kid who goes to Michael Jackson's Neverland Rance, etc. you get my drift.  But most people are not as courageous as this and would rather just post their videos for the public to view.  Some amateur videos on youtube such as "this one" have received over 5 million hits.  A feat. that would be unachievable if there were no internet.  Of course I visit youtube to get some entertainment for my sometimes boring life, but I also take for granted how much we all are blessed with in this day and age.  If I were living say 100 years ago, if I got bored, I would probably go outside and read a book or something.  Now, people can search the internet and enjoy others works of expression.  Videos on youtube help define the  people who make them, and I realized you shouldn't dis videos even though they're bad because the people who made them must have cared enough about the video to put it on the internet.