Saturday, February 13, 2010


Media has become easy to access and therefore easy to be influenced by. The internet has given people the easiest access to media in the world. Websites filled with information and advertisement of all kinds, from articles to videos. The easy access does affect the younger children because their sources of information have immensely broadened. The internet enhances the range of topics and even other forms of medium. For example there are even videos; the ones uploaded on YouTube are available by the billions. In the past few years, YouTube has become a very common source to search and watch videos of the user’s targeted interest. About 99% of videos seen online is from YouTube. Users can simply locate a video of their own choice and time, exposed to a variety of topics. Around 250 million people visit YouTube every month, which gives a firm idea of how many visit a day and how often. The too easy video access is what makes this availability a complication. For some reasons, the videos that are watched online can be educational; it has become almost the replacement of books and the television. The problem is that it is mainly that younger generations that are the main visitors of websites like YouTube and their preferences to what they see can be purely uneducational. A popular interest in society is physical appearance. The “hottest” are usually starred in movies, music video clips and commercials. And it is only these so called perfect people that are being portrayed to the public. If that’s what younger people see then that’s what they think is the only acceptable image. YouTube has also begun to ban illicit material and control the posted videos. Yet not all videos that parents would most definitely think is inappropriate are cut off.

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