U-tube is a revolutionary tool that is being used, by almost anyone with the internet, for multiple uses that are unparallel to anything offered over the internet every before.
U-tube truly allows a person to freely explore the outer fringes of their freedom of speech and freedom of expression by creating any video of their choice and posting it on the internet for millions of people to view at their leisure. The postings can be anonymous or distinctively exhibit the creator’s name. It can be used to search for historical video footage, such as Frank Sinatra’s 1951 debut concert in Las Vegas, or to have some fun with friends.
U-tube is powerful. Simply having a video image attached to a message is a powerful way of trying to get a message across to a general audience. A video’s visual aspect has the ability to capture an audience; like the TV people will watch TV just to watch TV even if theirs nothing good on because visual images are stimulating. U-tube gives a powerful voice to anyone with the multimedia to create a u-tube posting.
U-tube can also be helpful when trying to stay current with the news. Any news clip you would like to view can be found on u-tube. A lot of times breaking news will be on u-tube before it can be seen anywhere else, and this is because people have the power to post video themselves. For example, Saddam Hussein’s execution was on u-tube before the news because witnesses used their camera phones to film the execution and immediately posted the video to U-tube.
U-tube is really anything visual. The idea that u-tube is virtually uncensored can become a negative design because of the limitless possibilities to the videos being posted. People are creating situations to film specifically for u-tube, and some can be very violent. For example high school boys seem to think it is a good idea to violently beat someone, capture it on film and display it on u-tube; which can be controversial. The fact that a person has the option of making themselves anonymous might be cause for more morally questionable video subjects. Maybe a good way to eliminate some of the negative videos would be to force people to proclaim who they are.
Even though controversial issues can be brought up about u-tube the majority of people use it for positive reasons. U-tube can be a helpful resource for a variety of tasks and is a revolutionary form of message boarding.
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Well, a big ouch here because YouTube is not the same as U-Tube and because of that mistake, it wipes out most of the impact of the column.
Plus, the first paragraph has a typo (don't count on spell check, ever). (Every should be 'ever').
The major points hit are good - about the power of the video service, its utility, its general lack of censorship, but calling it by the wrong name knocks those points off the scoreboard.
Type in u-tube and see where it takes you: not to YouTube...
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