What is YouTube? YouTube is the increasingly popular video sharing website where users can post just about anything. There are music videos, clips from movies and TV shows, and homemade movies. If you want to watch a guy jump off a roof and do a 360° back flip into a pool, YouTube is for you. If you want to watch the Russian cellists of the Rastrelli Cello Quartet play off against the Finnish cellists of Apocalyptica, check out YouTube. It censors nothing, except pornography and extreme acts of violence. But whi wants that? Hours upon hours of entertainment are now just a click away. But is this new phenomenon rotting away the brains of our future generation? Hardly! YouTube not only entertains, it educates. It was on YouTube that I found about the new and upcoming talent of my fellow countrymen. I would have been completely ignorant of singers like Passion and amazing beatboxers like Leejay and Yuri Lane. YouTube quenches my hunger to visually experience the women of music that I adore: Billie Holiday, Dorothy Dandridge, Ella Fitzgerald, and Lena Horne. And if that’s not enough, it helped me begin to consider where I stand politically. The 2008 Presidential candidates have been using YouTube as an outlet for advertising their candidacies. Viewers can make videos in favor (or in opposition) of candidates like Ron Paul, Hilary Clinton, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden. YouTube even teamed up with CNN on presidential debates. So, are you skeptical about YouTube? Take a second, then, and think about something you have always wanted to see. I’m sure it’s on YouTube.
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