Wednesday, April 25, 2007

"YouTube has no ethics, it's been created for the sole purpose of entertainment and money" Do you agree?

YouTube is created to provide an avenue for civillians to post their videos and it allows mass viewers around the world to download and view other's work. The creation of YouTube has spawned many computer or rather 'video' addicts as I knew many friends spending hours brousing and scanning through the videos, often laughing ang gloating over someone's embarassment or misfortune. I believe this can be quite bad, especially when we should not snigger at others when they landed up in unfavourable situations.Hence, I agreed to the statement.

YouTube has no ethics is partially because it practically allows any type of videos to be uploaded. Videos that contains pornography and extreme violence, which are uploaded by unscrupulous authors, aim to corrupt and desensitise the young minds. I believe this affects teenagers as they are not fully matured and they are easily influence by such medium of entertainment. This situation is further aggravated when Youtube has integrated into part of our genration's life and increasingly, when we trusted our peers more than what we believed in ourselves. An example that YouTube has no ethics is it allowed a 44-second film showing graffiti over the king's face to be aired. The contentious film also shows feet being placed over the king's face ,which is an offensive act to Thais, who consider feet dirty. I believe that publising such films will surely affect the sovereignity of the country and create an insurrection to the citizen's feelings.

3 comments:

chloee said...

hi. chloe here. i think other than some typing error, the content is quite ok. but i thinki t will be better to state your stand right at the beginning because if not, i will be like reading through while trying to figure out what is your stand.

using example of the thai to support your stand is v.good. but it can be improved by providing more examples.

but i would rate it as quite a good attempt because it is your 1st blog assignment. GOOD JOB! XD

-Yi Hong- said...
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-Yi Hong- said...

_hello. i think you have done a great job. However, you can include some more examples to state that youtube is created solely for entertainment and money.=)