A Great Way to Express Yourself

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In today's blog post, I'm going to talk about YouTubers. Not just any YouTubers, but the ones I know personally. If you think about it, all of the famous YouTubers started off as ordinary people living their lives just like everyone else. So, in reality, they all had great friends that supported their YouTube journey. I strongly believe that I am one of those people for some of my friends who've created an account.
I know at least five people in my life who've started a YouTube channel, two of them being really good friends of mine. I'm very proud of them for starting a channel because I know how much courage it takes to start an account and post videos, let alone follow it through. I don't think I would ever be able to make an account because of how much commitment it requires and I'm a fairly shy person on camera.

To me, the thought of posting videos on YouTube seems kind of scary. It's as if you were to be an actress on T.V. because it's the same level of exposure to the world. One of my best friends post videos on YouTube and she's told me before how much hope and strength it takes for her to keep posting them with the fear of being judged in the back of her mind. She has to commit time and money to make her videos (for all the supplies and video tools) and she feels bad if she can't post a video once every week. I'm very proud of her commitment and I think it's amazing that she wants to express herself online through videos. Who knows, maybe one day she'll become a famous YouTuber! YouTube gives the users a chance to express their opinion, their talents, their beliefs, their stories and their lives to everybody worldwide. The friend whom I've been talking about is Brooke. I believe Brooke is an amazing singer and she should continue to show everyone her talent. She also has a YouTube channel where she posts videos as much as she can. She tries to make a variety of videos for all types of viewers like ones who love beauty videos or those who loves vlogs and challenge videos. Here's the link to her channel if you would like to check it out:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3Z9TBb9kc0O6sEo2fmhpsA

For today, I'll leave you with the video of my good friend Brooke singing a cover of "See Beneath Your Beautiful" by Labrinth recorded by Kerri Brown, a vocal coach, 2 years ago :

Positive or Negative?

Hey guys! Welcome back to my blog!
This time I'm going to be discussing about the impact YouTube has on our society.
We all know that YouTube has an impact on our world today, but exactly how much of an impact does it have and is it considered as a negative or positive influence towards our generation?
                                                               
As I explained in my last blog, every 60 seconds 12.5 days worth of new videos are available for people worldwide to view. This content online could get teenagers addicted to their phones or computers all because they're subscribed to YouTubers they enjoy to watch. For example, I'm subscribed to many different YouTubers and I like to watch their videos every time they post new ones. That's quite a lot of videos to watch, even though I skip a few occasionally. Although, this doesn't mean that YouTube is a negative influence towards our society. It's amazing how much our generation is evolved that we have the ability to post videos online for the whole world to see.

According to a study done near July 2013 by Google Canada, 75% of 1,000 Canadians claimed that they stream videos on their mobile devices and 1/5 of them expressed that they watch videos on the web every day. I can believe this survey 100% because a lot of my friends watch YouTube videos constantly, some of them even having an active YouTube account. I think that's amazing because my friends are expressing themselves to the world and becoming more confident with themselves. They could even develop the skills required to be a professional YouTuber as their career.

Speaking for myself, YouTube has the same influence a television, a computer, a video game, or even music can have on society. To me, this is all because it's an addictive and reliable escape from the real world. When we watch T.V., play on the computer, play a video game or are on our mobile devices, the screen and the content inside can often be distracting and it takes us away from reality. Therefore, I believe that the real negativity comes from our contact with an internet connection. If you think about it, the majority of the people around you don't spend as much time on their phones when they're not connected to WiFi. That is, in fact, how we get on these various addicting sites. Except, if we can control the time we spend on the internet, it can certainly be an entertaining thing. All in all, YouTube is an outstanding website and if we don't let it consume all of our time, YouTube can have a positive impact on our society.

References:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/technology/tech-news/smartphone-addiction-grows-in-canada-google-survey/article13476660/

Welcome to the World of YouTube

What is YouTube?
If you do not know the answer to the previous question, have you been living under a rock?
I don't judge, so if you are living under a rock, this blog is here to help. 

In today's society, YouTube is one of the most visited websites worldwide. In my opinion, YouTube keeps influencing our society as technology is becoming more and more open to the world. YouTube is a website created with the purpose of video sharing all across the globe, whether they're songs, original videos, music videos, trailers, educational videos, TV and movie clips, vlogs, or many more different styles. I believe that the fact that you can find almost anything on YouTube in relation to videos, is completely mind blowing. 

During the early months of 2005, Chad Hurley and Steve Chen elaborated on the idea of YouTube at a dinner party in San Francisco due to the difficulties they had trying to share videos from that night. The website was produced on February 14, 2005 by Chad, Steve and Jawed Karim, all former employees of PayPal. On April 23, 2005, the first YouTube video was uploaded, titled "Me at the zoo", which was shot at the San Diego Zoo presenting the co-founder Jawed Karim. That video is still up to watch on the web to this day, which is super cool. (I placed the video down below if you wanted to check it out!) In November 2006, Google. Inc. bought YouTube for $1.65 billion. I put total confidence in when I say that ever since then, YouTube has become more and more successful. There is around 300 hours of footage posted on YouTube each minute passing and people witnesses around hundreds of millions of hours of video every day. That kind of scares when I think about it like that because this is what our generation has come to. Although, I still strongly believe that YouTube is a great invention.

Personally, I love YouTube and I believe that YouTube is an outstanding network for many different reasons. It allows verified users to upload videos of various lengths, which I think is pretty cool. For example, if you wanted to simply post a video to share with your distant friends and family, there is no restriction for the length of time. YouTube is also free to watch and free to post videos. That means that YouTube does not require a membership to watch the videos posted, nor does it require a fee to create an account and start uploading. We could also talk about the fact that YouTube is a great way to express your creativity and personality to the whole world. As a matter of fact, YouTube is useful in many ways because of its variety of videos. There are tons of different videos on YouTube pertaining to all sorts of subjects and ideas. Therefore, I watch YouTube quite often and I consider YouTube to be one of the most useful and entertaining websites ever created, do you feel the same way? 

References: 

http://digitalunite.com/guides/tv-video/what-youtube

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube#Company_history

http://www.youtube.com/yt/press/statistics.html