YouTube was founded in almost 2 years ago and started as a small company in San Mateo. Now, YouTube is one of the fastest growing website in which 100 million clips were viewed daily. Youtube has certainly being an innovation of technology in which viewers can enjoy media entertainment free of charge. However, YouTube did not get to best of both worlds as the young business is being challenged by issues such as political peace and videos that imparts the wrong moral value.
Though Youtube is the leading business model in the economy yet it has also shown the ugly side of it -- its lack of ethnics. Videos of bullying amongst teenagers can be found on Youtube. The acts of violence are known as “happy slapping” where an accomplice record the whole act of bullying using a mobile phone or other means of recording. “Happy slapping” is now a very popular among teens in London and it also dawns on me that similar cases have actually took place in Singapore too. An assualt teenage girl was being surrounded by a group of girls who stripped her and slammed her head against the staircase last year. Having this unhealthy violent video posted on Youtube not only increases the trend of “happy slapping” but will hurt the assaulted teenage emotionally. Can we imagine how a teenager would react if he/she sees the footage of the bullying act posted on Youtube? I condemn such a cowardly act but I have to agree that YouTube has open up a channel for such videos to be broadcasted.
For the political side, tension between the Greeks and the Turks when both parties made videos that berate each other. Thus, YouTube was banned in Turkey for 3 days and YouTube was sued for such videos.
In conjuncture, Youtube did unleash users’ creativity for home video making. Users also enjoy making their own music videos with final fantasy or the sims character. Users who have done a great job in homevideo making are termed as “internet celebrities”. Some of them have even gained fame by signing contracts with production companies.
In conclusion, I believe that YouTube has done well in incorporating the TV with the computer. Its contributions have brought a lot of convenience to users as we approach this computer era. Perphaps mankind is still not matured enough to be given such freedom to upload videos on the net for sharing. The sensitive issues posted in the videos outlines the weaklines of YouTube to the extent that it lacks its social ethnics. I hope that people will have kind intention while using Youtube and not use it as a way to broadcast evil thoughts.
“Ethics is a code of values which guide our choices and actions and determine the purpose and course of our lives.” — Ayn Rand, Russian-American novelist and philosopher (1905-1982)
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