In the world of Instagram, Facebook, TikTok (yes.... D), Youtube and other social platforms, what you choose become your habit or pattern of life.
When it's about Entertainment only
Facebook, TikTok.
When it's about Business and Entertainment
Instagram, Youtube.
We all know how bad or good is Instagram, Facebook, Tiktok for us. So our main highlight will be:
YOUTUBE
Let's take the word "Youtube" for rest of discussion. I will try to highligh the title "Is Youtube making us DUMB" in points:
So BRING coffe and let's put our mind to discussion:
Is Vlogging Indirectly Manuplating our mind?
Yes, Apart from Music, Education videos there is another kind of content which is based on that person's life style, who is recording it.
That person usually records the things which are part of our dreams, goal or we can say common in our life. which trigger us to subscribe them and we treat them as our influancer, that does not mean it is bad, but Question is What type of content they are prmoting, are they prmoting any brand whose focus is just to get business done.
So Question or discussion thing is, should we take some one "Life style vloging" a part of our daily life style?
Is Branding and influancers Targeting business only?
To be more specific to the Youtube not just vlogging, any type of videos which are used for market a product (any tech app, health products, beauty products).
Are they worth to watch? As companies pays the owners of that videos, thier duty complete, now it comes to us, who helping them to get more views and making available for others as well with cost of our time
So Question or discussion thing is, Should we inverst our time to all such advertisments based content which are not worth to even think of.
Is Youtube Trying to make teenagers or youngsters habitual of it?
With loss of space and increace of media and tech, almost everyone like students, remote workers also children prefer to sit inside the home, just plugged in earphone and watch any related videos of their interest on youtube. Weather it's education, health, advance level gaming tricks etc.
Now youtube algorithm works in such a way it make trending those videos which are either of popular channels or may be with some highly full views videos, Content does not matter?
Now if someone is new Viewer and see that viral videos for first time because of it's trending and views. what impact will be of it on that viewer. that person will build his own theory and will go with a belif that this is all true.
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Discussion never ends, we have unlimited of points to discuss. but i tried to pick those points, which are based on research done on people who spend there most of time on the youtube.
I Personally Love to watch Youtube over media like TIKTOK. And somehow youtube affected me as well. so I decided to cover some common and important points of youtube.
So give your views in comment box to bring something good of youtube media and if possible help me to proof the title is wrong.
i tried to make it a quality blog instead of quanitity blog. So if there is any mistake let me know.
bye!
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Top comments (4)
99% of Youtube content isn't worth watching, but I do like watching (and listening of course) good music on Youtube. And related to tech there's of course a lot of valuable content out there (tutorials, courses etc). Does watching Youtube make us dumb? Depends 100% on what you watch :-)
To stay informed about what's going on in the world (serious news), well Youtube, Facebook and any other sort of social media are of course useless and should be avoided like the plague. Instead, read online editions of serious quality media (newspapers which have real journalists working for them). Wikipedia is another great and reliable resource.
Nothing on social media can be believed or taken at face value unless cross-checked against other sources, the amount of fake news is simply too big.
Youtube for entertainment is okay, everything in moderation, as long as you don't overdo it it's fine.
Thanks for putting your points. Good to know other alternatives
I Agree with you Leob, Overdoing anything is never worth it.
I don't think content of any type makes people dumb, we consume the content we are drawn to, we would like to blame something to made us dumb, but is ourselves who chose to consume it. In old times "books makes children dumb" was a big thing, reading a book is too passive they said, gives the story already done and that will kill kids imagination, it was said about the movies, about videogames, music, etc.
Everytime a new media is born the same concerns arise. But the fact is that unless we are forced to, the content we consume is defined by us, now more than ever, I think that today the argument is even weaker, before we where kinda forced, you watched whatever was in the TV, nowadays we can choose, that gives more responsibility to the individual. If something modern media allow us to be as dumb as we are.
In the end we are not forced anymore to see things we don't want, and in some cases we where forced to educate, to see things we didn't relate to, we where forced to blend our view with others.
Informative......