Youtube: Broadcast Your Argument

Like many people around the world, I am a youtube addict. When I’m bored I consult the videos that are posted onto this amazing website. The website is a great way of presenting visual material because of its simplicity, flashy appeal, and few restrictions. Before youtube the internet had a stagnant problem; how could someone post visual and audio material so that it can be viewed by many people? You could create your own website, but that would tiresome and unnecessary just to display one video (and who knows if it could gain much attention). Then youtube emerged with an easy and effective manner of demonstrating one’s creativity through visual recording.

The advantages of presenting videos on youtube, as opposed to oral/live demonstrations, are in its efficiency and capacity to be seen by a wide array of people. Rather than performing an oral display to a select group of people, a person can now post material to many hundreds, thousands, or even millions of people! Needless to say, this helps get one’s point across much more effectively.

Translating youtube’s website to an oral/live presentation or documented format would be either impractical or impossible given the vast nature of the site. That is why youtube is so incredible; it can’t be summed up into anything else. The diversity and grandeur of youtube has not been paralleled nor, in my opinion, will it ever be.

Translation into any other format would be a useless endeavor that could only serve to dilute youtube’s flashy appeal and its simplicity. Who could honestly say that they could translate every single piece of video on the youtube? Due to its extensive nature, it stands triumphant as one the most recognizable sources of media and has allowed millions to expose their creativity so that anyone my view it. So go ahead, broadcast yourself!