The Impact of Youtube

Youtube is a video sharing website that is well-known internationally, created by three formal PayPal employees. Hundreds and millions of video are being uploaded, shared and viewed on a daily basis by users all over the world. Youtube act as a source of entertainment, information, relaxation and this had changed the world. It is an undeniable fact that Youtube has impacted our society positively and negatively in many ways.

From the political side, politicians are given the opportunity to share their ideas and allow them to voice out their opinions through videos. Meanwhile, it allows the whole world to hear their voices and also to let people notice what they have done for the public. For an example, as election is approaching, Youtube had been flooded with news regarding political parties. It enables citizens to gain information relating to their favoured political party. On the other hand, Youtube also has cultural impact towards the society, just like the milking videos. Student paper The Tab Newcastle reported that students in Edinburgh, Nottingham and Cirencester are all filming their own versions of Milking Newcastle as the trend spreads across the UK’s institutions for higher education. The trend grew and a lot more students made their own version of that video which had caused wastage of milk. Besides that, it has also affected the way the media provides information. Through YouTube, news can be viewed by anyone, or in fact everyone can see it. We used to have blogger but now "Vlogs" also came in line as one of the next trend whereby people take videos of themselves instead of writing it on a blog which would be more interesting for the viewers or the used-to-be-readers. Youtubers like Niga Higa, who post videos on himself talking about the recent issues in Youtube, or Michelle Phan, who shoots herself and teach the viewers how to apply make up. They are examples of how people do vlogs. Youtube has also impacted the educational aspect in our society. Videos of any aspects can be found on Youtube. For instance, if you are not sure of how an AC Generator actually works while studying Physics, you can actually search on youtube and you have a video of people explaining to use giving us animated experiment for us to understand more deeply of what we want to know about. It has enabled us to learn faster and easier in such way.  


In a nutshell, YouTube has made a huge impact to our society with positive and negative effect. For instance, media companies have YouTube  account to promote their broadcast news but somebody may spread fake rumours though YouTube. YouTube should  create the a battleground for issues of censorship to provide to the users, especially some of the users under 18-year-old as YouTube has become the major impact on the eldest culture.Therefore, to protect the privacy of users that YouTube should practice greater censorship that has positive effect on today's popular culture only.