Social Media [3]

Another of my favourite social media is video sharing sites, most wellknown is Youtube.com.

In Youtube, you can post videos you made/ edited/ compilation of current issues, movies, music, sports, interest, tips, fashion, beauty, art, craft, tutorials and many more.
For free, anyone can host their own video in Youtube.

When members upload consistent genre of videos, they will gain followers who can suscribe to their channel. Suscribers can choose to be notified of new uploads or not. The more suscribers you gain, the more popular you get in the youtube community for the particular genre/ area of interest.

The rating system is useful for people who browse videos to decide whether it is worth the time to watch or move on to another video from the search results.
Below that, there is the comments section. Some uploaders disable the "add comment" option, but most of them allow comments. Viewers can post comments to share opinions after watching the video and discuss with other viewers. Not only that, comments let others know whether the video is good or bad, depending on the comments. Uploaders can get feedbacks from viewers, which may help in providing ideas to make a better version.

At the right side of the video, there is a section where many uploaders post the summary, copyrights, etc to let others know briefly what the video is about. Below that, there is the tags where you labels your videos with keywords so that it will appear in other's search engine. Then, you get the url and embed box. This helps viewers to instantly share the video with friends by sending link or posting the embedded code in blogsm social networking sites, personal websites and others. For example, in my Social Media post, I posted the embed code to share a Youtube video.

If you have a youtube account, you can add favourites and this can be seen in your channel. This allows people to share favourite videos with friends and families, thus spreading news and also the popularity of the video. You can get to particular uploaders that you like easily through the suscribes window.

Video sharing lets people to meet others with same interest. I benefit from video sharing sites a lot, especially for art and craft tutorials. I get to meet others who are interested in same kind of craft, art, music, martial arts techniques, particular fashion styles, animations, and other areas of interests and learn more from them. I usually search for tutorials and tips as I love learning new skills. Thus sclipo.com is my favourite video sharing site. I like to watch unique advertisements that have interesting and different ideas from mainstream ones. To me, they are creative, and the people who planned them do think outside the box.


This is a brief review on video sharing sites as a social media and how it affect my life and lives around me.