Don't Take My YouTube Away....
Did you watch Panorama on BBC1 the other night? It was about videos of kids leathering other kids being posted onto internet video websites and henceforth being made available for worldwide viewing.
Caught squarely in the middle of this new debate is YouTube. Teachers and anti-bullying organisations - both of which I back to the hilt - are calling for the shutdown of video websites like YouTube so that the artery of extra-curricular bullying and humiliation is cut.
Unlikely as it is to happen, it'd be a shame if the online community were to lose such a useful vehicle as YouTube as it has a vast majority of responsible users - this blog included - who post sensible stuff. Without YouTube you wouldn't have half, if any of the video content you get on here, I wouldn't be able to hunt down classic snippets from television of old...and Polardin would be knackered for something to do whilst sat at his computer.
Let's face it, the majority (not all....I'm prepared to give them some grace!) of today's youth - particularly males - are twa....sorry, untrustworthy. They'd soon find another way of getting their videos online, so shutting down YouTube would not solve the overall problem in the long term.
Is this an example of technology development being a double-edged sword?
5 comments:
I hope i'm one of them kids who is not in the 'untrustworthy' section!!
I think you've proven yourself not to be untrustworthy by now, don't you?
Count yourself lucky - The Pole can be an aloof arsehole at times when it comes to other males! :-)
Im not sure else how to contact you lads without commenting on this...drop me an email to ben.3.roberts@openreach.co.uk with your email address.
Anyway...Saturday...
Yet more fixture faffage...
Vs. Glossop North End
Kick Off. 11:00 AM
Ground. MCFC Platt Lane Complex, Yew Tree Road, Fallowfield, Manchester, M14 7UU
Yes...11:00 AM Kick Off.
See you there, Ben R
Cheers, Ben,
I'll send you an e-mail with my e-mail address.
11.00am?? Jesus......at least I know where the Platt Lane Complex is; I grew up 'round there!
Hmmmmm.... might get dropped off there before i go and watch Woodley beat Hyde...
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