Youtube, Will You Marry Me?

Do you Youtube? The correct answer should undoubtedly be “yes.”

Opening to the public only two years ago, Youtube.com is one of the fastest-growing websites on the World Wide Web. It allows users to upload for public purpose just about any type of video clip, ranging from music videos to T.V. commercials to made-at-home videos. Literally, any video you can image is available for view on Youtube. Now some might say that Youtube is not worthy of our time and that it only infests our brain with a bad internet version of the T.V., but I stand before you here to object to this absurdity! Youtube does in fact have an educational purpose. It puts value on the human being’s natural ability to be unique. In other words, Youtube loves talent, no matter how extreme or ridiculous it may be. On one end, you have Esmee, an 18-year-old singer who received a contract with Justin Timberlake’s record label on account of her uploading videos of herself singing and on another you have the nameless World Greatest Pizza Twirler. Both are equally as impressive. But, that’s not all Youtube has to offer. For the first time in history, Youtube is the home of the first interview ever to be conducted with a presidential candidate from a college dorm room. James Kotecki, political interviewer and college student, interviewed Congressman Ron Paul in the private setting of his bedroom to be seen at the leisure of the entire World Wide Web.

Now, back to my initial question: Do you Youtube?

If you do in fact “Youtube,” you can be proud to shout from the top of your lungs that you are one of 20 million monthly visitors that watch 100 million clips daily and upload 65,000 new videos per 24 hours. You sure do have a busy schedule and I’m sure the founders of Youtube, Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim, would be very proud of you. For those who shamefully answered “no,” I advise you to run to your closest computer and quickly type in Youtube.com. I promise you, your life will never again be the same.