YouTube

We are CESL students that take News Talk class in Carbondale. In this class, we discuss about verious issues of the news. We decided to do a survey on one of controversial problems, YouTube. It is a popular video sharing website that has a lot of video clips. However, this website gives us unauthorized clips, especially celebrities. Our group studied about privacy of Youtube because a lot of people are intruded their privacy by video clips like YouTube nowadays. We wanted to know how American people use YouTube and whether there is any differences in age and gender. We got American students and gave them 37 questions about Youtube on campus. They were cooperative and curious about YouTube. More than 250 people helped our survey.

According to the result of this survey, 93% of people have heard YouTube. Especially men, 96% of them know that. We can say that men are more interested in YouTube than women. Besides, this website seems to be very popular among 20s people(18-22 96%, 23-30 95%). 76% of people have a cell-phone camera. It means many people can take a picture easily even if they do not ask any permission. Only 25% people claimed that YouTube is guilty of piracy because most of people do not want to pay extra money for watching video clips. 14% of them think that they should pay. It means they can not afford for fun.

Through this survey, I found out YouTube makes most of students fun because they do not have TV in their dorm. We do not have to pay for watching a video clip in YouTube. And in my opinion, men are good at using computer than women. That's why more males watches YouTube than females. Moreover, I was surprised because most people know YouTube. I didn't know What YoutTube is when I was in Japan. Although we can enjoy unauthoried clips, I think we need permissions. Today our life depend media such as Internet and TV. We should stop abusing our privacy.


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