It was an $11.5 million dollar investment that took off from the moment beta testing was released in May of 2005; YouTube’s bandwidth usage exploded with video content pouring in with 65,000 videos being uploaded every day by June of 2006. As with all new communication avenues, whole communities began to form and were categorized under different genres of video postings such as “Comedy”, “Education”, “Entertainment”, “Music”, “People & Blogs”, “News & Politics” and more. As opposed to only being able to interact through written texts as with chat (i.e. AIM, AOL), or live video conferencing (i.e. Skype, Oovoo, Tokbox), YouTube continues to break through as a totally unique method of interaction on the internet since it utilizes both chat and video, though not as a live interaction. This allows any and every individual to not only interact with certain persons, but to even address the entire YouTube-watching community as a whole! In essence, the ability to actively communicate and interact with the world by way of video has been opened up to the individual through this video-sharing website.
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