Saturday, April 7, 2007

1. “YouTube has no ethics, it's been created for the sole purpose of entertainment and money.” Do you agree?

OR

2. “The real innovation that Youtube provides is that --- individuals and groups can produce entertainment. The lawsuit is one of the Great Battles over who controls or provides access.” Do you agree?

Question 2 will be attempted:

“The real innovation that Youtube provides is that --- individuals and groups can produce entertainment. The lawsuit is one of the Great Battles over who controls or provides access.” Do you agree?

Yes, i would agree with this statement made.

Youtube is a video uploading website that showcases videos put up by people around the world. With technological advances nowadays, I believe that quite a number of Singaporean families do own computers and even internet access.

As a result of this easy access to the internet, Youtube has inevitably disintegrate into our lives in someway or another recently, providing us with online entertainment. It has now act as a medium where entertainment can be easily obtained Building up one's social circle is also another advantage of the existence of Youtube as it allows people with similar interests to share their opinions with one another.

Besides, the existence of Youtube can also allow stimulate people to start "producing entertainment" by shooting videos and uploading them to the server. That would allow one to exercise their creative juices and at the same time, provided entertainment to others.

Recent statistics also show that Youtube has also acted as a mode of advertisements for certain products such as drama serials VCDs and DVDs. People who have frequent the website might start to be interested in this shows and would most probably buy them if they really do like it a lot.

Hence, the above points would clearly showcase how Youtube has somehow integrate into us, becoming part and parcel of our lives.

Somehow, the BIG questions remain: Who should control this website and who are the allowed audience to access to this?

The recent controversial issue that involved the flaming of the Thai King has sparked over debates for the existence of Youtube in the Thailand's internet servers. That bring us down to thinking whether is there a necessity to restrict the audience as well as well those uploading viedos. Perhaps, there must be people to manage and to give the green light to videos uploaded.

Ultimately, i believe that one must exercise discrency to uploading information onto the internet. One must think twice about his actions and bear the consequences for what has evolved due to his immature actions.

In a nutshell, Youtube can help and affect man both postively and negatively. The crucial factor that one must bear in mind is the information uploaded onto the internet. Like drugs, it may have positive effects if taken in prescribed amounts or else, the consequences may be disasterous when abused.

1 comment:

indigo said...

yupps. I agree with you that youtube is indeed a method for people to exercise their creativity. it enables both the young and old to have a means of relaxation. =))