The Youtube Experience

I have always considered youtube as a spectacular Web 2.0 innovation due to its sharing features that can benefit many people. I can say that youtube has a positive impact to me because I can have the opportunity to access different kinds of information anytime for free. I can listen to the songs of my favourite artists, watch music videos or recent movie trailers and I can see interesting and funny home videos of other people. Youtube is definitely the easiest way to entertainment. Many people are even discovered in here making them “youtube sensations” such as, Charice Pempengco and Arnel Pineda. Furthermore, youtube helps me to share my own videos to my family, friends and even for academic purposes. With this, people from different places are able to share their works and may update us to different happenings and perspectives in the world.

These benefits of youtube also show that we can also use it as a tool to improve education in the Philippines. Since the use of youtube is free as long as you have internet access, students can search for academic videos for their assignments, research papers and other school related works. There are many tutorial videos in almost any subject like Calculus, Algebra, Programming etc. With this, students can have a different kind of learning style because they are able to get information from other people.  Although, one must be careful in choosing credible videos because there are also fake uploaders that shares wrong information. Moreover, people can use youtube as a self-study tool especially if they don’t have the money to get a formal education or hire a tutor/teacher.  

Youtube has existed for a couple of years now and we can really see how it’s slowly evolving. Each day, thousands of people upload their own videos and information gets wider. I believe that in 10 years youtube can have two futures. Youtube can either be very powerful or it can collapse. It can be so powerful that we may not need to use television anymore. This is because, it can be the primary source of business opportunities and advertising. On the other hand, it can also fall because it may not be up-to-date anymore because there will be new kinds of websites or other forms of technology that is better in sharing. Either way, I still believe that youtube is the perfect tool for us to be updated and communicate to other people in the world.