Youtube was brought to the World Wide Web only a short two years ago, and since then grown so popular that it contains thousands of videos of all kinds. As a public place to upload and watch videos, Youtube is open to everyone and contains every kind of video imaginable on every topic a person can possibly think of. While it could have been abused to share movies or TV shows, the creators made it so that videos could not surpass a 10 minute time limit, hoping to stop users from posting illegal movies and the like on their webpage. Although the creators went to great lengths to stop it from happening, some users have found ways to post partial episodes or many parts of an episode on Youtube until it is removed or blocked a few hours later.
While some users spend hours upon hours online watching the countless videos, I would be lying if I said I was one of them. I have seen probably 20 Youtube videos since being introduced to the site last spring, and it has often come in handy for school PowerPoint presentations and making me laugh. Although I have only seen a few videos, I have seen Youtube at its best and at its worst, between “Washington” and the unfortunate “what what” video that a student brought to class. All a person has to do is visit youtube.com to view hundreds of thousands of videos with no cost to them. An account gives a user the ability to save his or her favorite videos, but with out one, they can view the same material. They would be lost for conversation and people would have to find a new form of procrastination, otherwise being sucked further into the world of Facebook, but that is a different story.
Youtube videos are constantly a source of discussion and I cannot imagine what some people would talk about if they did not have the common link of Youtube. In the short while I have been a Youtube viewer, I have seen hilarity, disappointment, cried from laughing too hard, and been utterly disgusted. It can bring out the inner child in viewers of any age and evokes all kinds of emotions. I was quite distraught when tonight I navigated to Youtube to watch the video that had been the butt of many jokes this summer, and was disappointed when the alarming red print stated that the user had removed it. Never again will I watch the “Washington” video, but the phrase “washing-ton washing-ton, 6 ft 20 made of radi-ation” will live on in my memory for a long time. It was one of the first videos I had seen, appreciated, and laughed as I watched it multiple times in a row.
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