I would like to move DD up a bit. This will require investigation.
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Today's assignment: assess youtube as a "networking" site.
Youtube is a site that uses a designed flash media player to allow users to both watch videos and upload their own. It is, in effect, the largest video sharing site in the world. This is partially for its simplicity. If you want to watch a video, simply click on the link and it will load for you (assuming you have a recent enough version of macromedia flash). However, if you wish to upload a video, you must sign up for a free account, and upload from your profile. Uploading is easy, and one even has the option of editing notes etc. into the video afterwards.
Youtube is designed to target everyone. The young and old, the outgoing and introverted, the smart and the stupid. If you have internet, you probably use this site. However, based on the types of videos that overwhelmingly inhabit this site. It is likely that unless you're a NEET and lurk the internet religiously, you don't use it that much.
Youtube as a site represents a reasonably fast and very convenient way to not only share videos, but also easily access videos at one's leisure. Youtube is very useful in several meanings. It can be a vlog, it can be used to provide a series of shows, and it is most useful for killing time.
Even the privacy on youtube is convenient. Since most of one's profile page is dominated by one's uploaded, favorited, channeled, etc. videos, one's personal information is limited to a couple of lines under your name in a sidebar, and even that is optional if you don't want to provide it. However, the information you do provide is technically apparrent for all those who visit your profile page.
Youtube is one of the largest sites of the world, and is at the frontier of sharing "technology" whether one makes use of it or not.
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