W2: Creating a New Social Media Platform
Dream Box YouTube operates as an American-based online platform for sharing videos. YouTube enables users to upload, view, rate with likes and dislikes, share, create playlists, report, comment on videos, and subscribe to other users. The slogan "Broadcast Yourself," used for several years, and the concept of user profiles as "Channels," illustrate the platform's foundation of enabling individuals to operate personal broadcasting stations akin to television, extended with video-on-demand capabilities. YouTube became popular in March 2006. In the summer of 2006, YouTube emerged as one of the most rapidly expanding websites on the internet, accommodating over 65,000 new video uploads. I believe that people must now have YouTube on their phones. However, does it work as people expect? Currently, people often obtain videos from other platforms and upload them to YouTube without permission from the original authors. This practice highlights YouTube's failure to p...