Chapter 1: The Age We Live In
One of the most technologically advanced ages arrived with the turn of the century and with it newer more efficient means of conveying and accessing information. Every day millions of people are accessing an online video resource, which 5 years ago didn’t exist, that has revolutionized our world. It has stretched so far in influence that it has even begun to make its way into classrooms as a teaching resource and political debates as a means of targeting a younger voting audience. The website responsible for opening this rather large, ever expanding can of worms is YouTube, a video-sharing website that had been created by three former PayPal employees in February of 2005. YouTube became one of the most frequently visited sites, right up there with Google and Facebook and, as a result, whole video-sharing communities were formed around video-sharing. As posts started coming in the form of video blogging, people from around the world were enabled to interact with one another in a new and radically different way on the internet, and so new internet “etiquette” took shape. YouTube has had a profound effect on the world on the social, political and even educational level.
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