Showing posts with label youtube. Show all posts
Showing posts with label youtube. Show all posts

Monday, April 12, 2010

Youtube, Target of violent videos

It is true that the videos most popular website Youtube has been very useful for millions of people. First it was a good site to hear music and watch the most recent videos, but later, it started to have more and more violent videos. How to forget when Sadam Jussain was sentenced to death and in hours hundreds of people were uploading the video that showed Jussain’s death.
Now it is very common to find street fights among teenagers, and what is more sad of all this, is the great quantity of videos that shows violence in school. When I saw for the first time in the news about this situation, I did not really give importance to it, but now I realize how this problem is. Also, it is becoming more often to see also terrible gunfights that involves deaths and hurt blooding people.
I know that this was not Youtube’s creator idea, and I am sure they do everything they can to keep this type of terrible videos out of their websites, but still, it is hard to watch the reality of this ugly world so close with this kind of uploads.
It is terrible that technology can bring us bad things like this ones, just think for a moment in the kids who navigate in the internet and find violence so easily, obviously they will not grown up normally, they could become violent, and all because some guys decided to put the “funny” video where they were hurting someone. This has to change, technology bring us good things but the reality is that is giving us more unnecessary and ugly things.

Sunday, February 28, 2010

Prohibition of Web Pages

The teacher once told us that in some places around the world, such in China, Google, Youtube and other web pages were completely banned. Do you think that this is correct? Is this for a social benefit or not? Well.. in my point of view this abolition has advantages and disadvantages.

In the advantages we can include that future generations won’t be that lazy in looking for information and investigating. When we read books and make a good effort when doing our investigations, our intellectual level increases because we exercise our brain. We are so used to Google, that we make books and reading apart. When teachers leave us some homework, we use to seat in front of the computer, enter the Google web page, and type the investigation that was assigned to us. There will appear lots of options and we have only to choose the one we consider the best one. Isn’t it this a lazy habit?

In the other hand, we can fine same disadvantages also. Google and Youtube are not only used for doing homework assignments, they are also used for entertainment and personal learning. If this web pages are completely prohibited, we are losing a lot of easy and fast information that we can get to need some day, and instead of looking for a book and read through a lot of pages in order to find one answer, well is much more easier to go through the internet.

Take this in consideration and consider reading some more books when talking about homework assignments.