Youtube--- the new age

Youtube is originally a website created for people to share their ideas and videos in the world wide web for free. The 2 persons who created the website has been recently paid S$2 billion dollars by google to sell the rights of the website to the company.

Now, youtube has been banned in thailand for showing a video of someone vandalising the potrait of the king. Some state that youtube is an organisation that only lets others post entertaining videos with not much moral content in them. But should we say that youtube is not a pool entertainment junk.

Before we jump into a swift conclusion, we have to examine the origin of youtube. I feel that the core idea of youtube is maninly a medium to share information. Most of the people know that it was a self interest web until it became commercialised. The youtube contains a wide variety of videos, posted by many others who wanted to share their videos. Some are self created, while others are taken directly from TVs. If it is only a website meant for money, then it would have charged others, for viewing or posting a video. And also, if someone was to blame youtube for showing the videos, we should instead point the fingers on those who posted it. All in all, youtube is still only a medium for people to paste their ideas right.

We should not ignore the fact that people actually do benefitted from youtube. Some became famous by posting something interesting and original content while others requested help through video blogs and got what they wanted. So who says that youtube is only a website for entertainment. Not only does it spur creativity and help others, people can watch what they want for free. It is an additional benefit for the main crowd which is why, youtube is unrivalled till now because it has not changed much since it was created.

Perhaps youtube can improve itself by filtering out sensitive videos but the essence of it will be lost. This will discourage people from posting videos and in the end, stifle creativity. I feel that it is the viewers who make the decision of what to watch and not the website of what to post.