YouTube

There are many problems with YouTube such as:

• Copyright
• Misuse of videos
• Lack of TV viewers of actual television

There are also many advantages with YouTube such as:

• Being able to see things before they are on TV, for example TV series from the USA a few weeks/months before they are released in the U.K
• Ability to show videos that you have made to a extremely large audience.

Problems with YouTube are usually based on problems for companies and advantages are usually good things for the audience and individual creators. But, there are also good points for companies because they can put across their adverts and trailers for shows or movies to a much wider audience and if more people start to view YouTube TV ratings will fall because soon many things will be able to be viewed onYouTube.

YouTube has many copyright problems too. Users can put on whatever they like on Youtube to an extent and this means TV programmes that they have illegally recorded for example like piracy from a cinema. This means people can watch TV shows that have been illegally 'recorded' and this is bad for companies once again.

There are some problems for parents, as children can view explicit content on YouTube by lying about age etc. which is extremely easy to do.

I like to use YouTube but sometimes having to go through all the trash that people put on there to try and find one thing that you want to watch is just hassle. People make a video of them and their friends messing around and then name it something like 'Take That' or something that people are highly likely to search and if many people do that it can be a right hassle trying to find one thing from 100's of results because some stupid child is trying to do this.

There are some well known users and contributors on YouTube who put their videos very regularily, usually diary type entries and usually talk about nothing that is interesting AT ALL, are of no interest to me at all either and i don't see how they interest other people, it's just completely stupid! It is an example of Wiki because people put on their own work and it is user generated. Without the users, there would be no videos and nothing to watch.

There are only a few reasons why i use YouTube and they are:

• Put my own videos on so i can put them on websites
• To watch things again that i have watched on TV
• To watch things before their on TV or before i see them on TV(e.g Music Videos)

Overall, i think Youtube is full of crap mainly apart from some stuff that is actually worth watching and i think there should be some sort of filter or sections that they can put headers and make sure that in the 'Music Videos' tab there are not stupid kids that are singing like strangled cats to their favorite songs in it.