Social Media
- devonn jsin
- Nov 15, 2018
- 2 min read
Updated: Dec 17, 2018
Social media is a platform that are designed to allow people to share content to each other quickly, efficiently and in real-time. It is an efficiently web-based communication tool, as it allows people to interact with each other.
This communication tool is stated with computers and it can be installed in our tablet and smartphone as well. As long as we connect to the internet. Besides that, through the social media, people are having the ability and allow to share or post their photos, opinions, leave the comments, videos and many more in real-time (Hudson, 2018). Hence, social media is also a tool that people not only can interact and communicate to their friend and also the people they never meet before.
YouTube is one of the most popular video sites in the web and it is a video sharing company. It is founded in 2005 by the three former which is Jawed Karim, Steve Chen and Chad Hurley. The headquartered of YouTube in San Bruno, California (X, 2016). In addition, in YouTube that allow user to upload, view, share, rate, comment on the video, subscribe the user they like and many more. Those available content in YouTube includes video clips, music videos, live streams, video blogging and more.
Mission of YouTube:
Give everyone a voice and show them the world
Values are based on 4 essential freedoms which is freedom of expression, information, opportunity and belong (YouTube, 2018).
On the other hand, YouTube also have provided a lot of benefit to the user:
User can view and uploading any video in YouTube and they have to pay nothing of it, as YouTube is a free video search engine.
User can watch and download videos and audio of videos.
Learn any kind of skill in YouTube. It can use for knowledge, so YouTube can also be a platform for learners. As in YouTube, there are many YouTuber will teach different kind of skills and knowledge in YouTube. For example, user can use YouTube to learn the way of cooking, different kind of language, coding, guitar and other many skill and knowledge from the YouTuber they have subscribes.
Earn money from YouTube. User can through YouTube to earn money, they can monetize the videos with Google AdSense. But the first things is need to sign up for AdSense account with the own Gmail ID (Sharma, 2017).
References:
Hudson, M., 2018. What is Social Media?. [Online] Available at: https://www.thebalancesmb.com/what-is-social-media-2890301 [Accessed 14 November 2018].
Sharma, V., 2017. 15 Powerful Advantages of YouTube Website. [Online] Available at: http://www.klientsolutech.com/15-powerful-advantages-of-youtube-website/ [Accessed 15 November 2018].
X, A., 2016. The History of Youtube. [Online] Available at: https://www.engadget.com/2016/11/10/the-history-of-youtube/ [Accessed 15 November 2018].
YouTube, 2018. YouTube. [Online] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/yt/about/ [Accessed 15 November 2018].
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