Hello, peers and fellow classmates. My experience with social networks online is quite extensively limited. Of all the social networks listed on the blog prompt picture (flickr, digg, del.icio.us, etc…), I have only used one: You Tube, http://www.youtube.com (Editor’s note: Of all the other networks in the picture, I have never ‘used’ any). I know about YouTube mainly from word of mouth. Many students would rave on about things they watched on YouTube. There are many forms of news that have links to YouTube’s URl site, like magazines, newspapers, broadcasts and other venues.
I first started to use YouTube to look for items related to the news program “60 Minutes” regarding the dangers of amalgam fillings. Since I have had cavatives, which was not a long time, I have always been apprehensive of getting any amalgam, or silver, fillings. After doing personal research on the computer, I came up on a link to a ’60 Minutes’ episode regarding the mercury amalgam filling issue :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trWTCEIPdfY&feature=results_main&playnext=1&list=PL9A92876AB428B4F1
Since I was a fan of ’60 Minutes’, back when I had a TV, I watched it on YouTube. I was already certain that no silver filling was going into my teeth. This episode only helped confirm my fears about mercury amalgam fillings. It also help me see some of the benefits of YouTube. The ability to pull up specific videos in full or part at a moments notice is crucial for today’s culture of on the go pedestrians and commuteers.
Now I use YouTube to watch some sports, like boxing, mma and bodybuilding, though I don’ t use it often. I am not hooked on YouTube, like how some people are hooked to their phones. I just feel that it has some good uses. Did you know that there are links to videos tutoring candidates on how to interview for a job?
Have you ever uploaded anything to YouTube or have you just watched? Are you likely to upload video if you have a phone that allows integration with YouTube? I know that the iPhone, for example, allows you to publish to YT right from the camera app.
I find that many people though tend to not use the social networking functionality of YouTube and simply use it to watch videos that they then may or may not share with others. In other words, it’s more useful to some as a database or dump of video content than a platform for social networking. the people I know who have active YT channels swear by it though I suspect most folks use it the way that you do.
And I am sure there are lots of videos on interviewing as college career services departments have started to use it to publish videos useful to students looking for jobs. A search for “interview techniques” might do it.
Also, to get the video to embed, use the URL from the “Share” menu in YT: http://youtu.be/trWTCEIPdfY