YouTube Survey Results

We are CESL students of SIU in Carbondale. We are taking a newstalk calss studying the news and having a discussion. We read and article about issue of YouTube. Then, we decided to do a survey on YouTube.This is a results of the survey. My group studied about copyright of YouTube. We read an article and we wanted to know whether people think YouTube is illegal or not because YouTube have films that is posted without authorization. So we made questions, for example, do you think YouTube is illegal or not? Each person handed out the survey at least eight surveys. I handed out my eight surveys in my dormitory because there are many Americans and it was easy to hand out. Everyone who were handed out the survey accepted the survey nicely and they returned the survey to me soon after they finished to answers.

After we analyzed the survey, we knew the facts. More than 90% of people who are under 18 to under 30 years old and more than 80% of people who are over 30 years old have ever heard of TouTube. Also, more than 80% of people who are under 18 to under 30 years old go to YouTube to watch movie clipes. These results show that how YouTube is popular among people. Almost half of people answered "no" the question about YouTube has a guilty of copyright. On the other hand, the percentages of the answer "yes" and "I don't know" are about 25%. The percentages of the question about you have ever watched unauthorized clips "yes" or "no" are almost same about 50%. However, the answers of "yes" are more than answers of "no".

I think people's answers are honest answers. Through the results, we knew how YouTube is popular among people and how people think about YouTube. I didn't surprized at the results very much. However, I was surprized the answers about the question that you'd continue to watch free clips if you knew it was illegal to watch them because almost 65% of people answered "yes" compared to the answeres "no" were around 30%. It is obvious that people like the free sharing website like YouTube, so even if people can't use YouTube, they will find another site and keep watching. This proglem is endless. I think we should analyzed the surveys by using computers. If we did, we could shorten the time we analyzed and I think computer is correct.

Atsumi