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       One of the technological trend that has affected me is YouTube.  It is founded in February 2005 by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim. Later, it was purchased by Google in the year 2006. It allows billion of people to watch other’s shared videos and share their own creational videos. YouTube plays a vital role to inform, inspire, educate, and connect the world through a web platform. The user interface of YouTube is so easy to use that a three years old baby can also navigate through it. The popularity of YouTube is skyrocketing day by day. According to Kevin Allocca, the  manager of YouTube, every minute people uploads the videos to the YouTube of length approximately 48 hours. It is an open source to show people’s talent to the world. The artists like Justin Beiber and Psy has become world famous through YouTube.

         I use it mostly for learning purpose. We can find lots of tutorial videos that explain briefly what we wanted to learn. It is the best open source to learn various educational skills. It is rapidly becoming a very huge digital library. The majority of people browse YouTube for entertainment. People enjoy watching different kinds of videos such as music videos, movies, pranks, sports highlights etc. It has amplified the choices, granted the freedom to choose their stars, and gifted the opportunity to share their talent. The last presidential election has showed another advantage of having YouTube in our lives by providing an additional way to discuss peoples’ opinion about political issues. It was one of the effective ways to appeal for the vote. The President of United States of America, Barrack Obama has his own YouTube channel to reach out all the citizens. YouTube is rapidly becoming the most efficient advertising medium. Most of the video has short advertisement tagged along. This feature allowed many businesses to globalize their product.  The film industries are using YouTube to promote their new movies.

       YouTube has played a vital role in societies’ economic, political, and religious sector. The author of Canadian Press, Nicole Winfield wrote, “VATICAN CITY_ Pope Benedict joined U.S. President Barack Obama and Queen Elizabeth by launching his own YouTube channel, the latest Vatican effort to reach out to the digital generation.” YouTube channel is like a profile that only consist those videos that are uploaded by a YouTube channel owner. If other users like the video they can subscribe to your channel. By subscribing to one's channel people can follow all his/her videos in one place.

        I think there are few side effects of YouTube in our social lives. There are many people who had endured embarrassment because some people with evil intention has uploaded their private videos. Another issue is copyright issue. Many music companies argue that YouTube has violeted law by letting share their copyrighted music product.

        In conclusion, the invention of YouTube has brought many positive changes to our social lives as well as negative changes. It is our responsibility to embrace it and use it for  good reasons.

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