Advantages and Disadvantages of YouTube

YouTube has become a powerful tool nowadays since people can watch, upload and download a variety of videos. It is important to say that YouTube has not only advantages but also disadvantages.

Between its advantages are:

·  1. People do not need to be at home to watch this program. Moreover, laptops, tablets and smart phones are devices that have access to this program, you just need accesss to internet.

·    2. YouTube is free. You only need a registration and a few minutes to personalize your channel to begin to share your ads. And in the case you don’t want to have an account you can watch almost everything, without having an account, on YouTube. The channel personalization offers good opportunities to promote the brand, as well as subscription and comments! It will cost you nothing!

·  3. More effective advertising. Many people switch to another channel while commercials are running and ads themselves are considered annoying. On the other hand, a good, funny or original advertisement is shared by people over the network and is considered a form of entertainment. So, this means that you can create an ad and then uploaded on YouTube, it is easier and free.

· 4. Diversity of content. This is one of my favorite’s advantages because there are several ways in which your video can reach the target group – searching for content using a keyword, as an option for a similar video after the user has seen a certain video.

·  5. YouTube has more freedom. You can watch a lot of ads that were not allowed to air for one reason or another. On YouTube, there are significantly fewer restrictions and often, particularly these ads enjoy great interest.

·  6. Anyone can record a video. You do not need a huge budget to be there. On the contrary - the more easy-going and "amateur" the video is, the more credible it is to the users. For example in my case I used to upload some videos because it is easier and free. Also, I like the tools that this website has since it allows to add subtitles, or to repair the quality of the video.

Disadvantages

· 1. Starts trends can be hazardous to the health and safety of participants, for example some people can do what they have watch in a tutorial or something like that, and they can injure themselves.

·  2. Many videos are inappropriate with no way of parental control over which videos children see since there are a variety of porn videos of tutorials that can cause a trauma in children’s health.

·  3. Everything has to be done through Google+, and sometimes it can be kind of difficult for some people to upload or to join YouTube because they don’t have a Google account.

·  4. No restriction on comments (language, racial slurs, etc)

·  5. Video size is limited to 1024 MB

In sum, YouTube is a website that allows people to look for a variety of videos and watch them without any restriction. In my case YouTube has become one of my favorites websites since I can look for a variety of information and also it has a bunch of educational information.