Advantages and Disadvantages of youtube

Firt we need to know what YouTube is. You tube is a video-sharing website which users can upload, view and share videos. Youtube uses Adobe Flash Video and HTML5 technology to display a wide variety of user-generated and corporate media video content, including video clips, TV clips, and music videos, and amateur content such as video blogging, short original videos, and educational videos, In our case this is the more important advantage to use this tool because we want to share with our students different and original videos. Also we can recommend some channels for having an extra explanation about different subjects and topics. Students can look for extra explanation by themselfs. They just type what they are looking for to have the most appropiate video. Unregistered users can watch almost any kind of videos, and registered users can upload an unlimited number of videos. This is great because you do not need to pay for it. It is for free. Videos considered to contain potentially offensive content are available only to registered users affirming themselves to be at least 18 years old. This is a disadvantage because you cannot have control on teenagers while they watch inappropiate videos, sometimes there are videos in which people expose violence. This affect peoples mind, but we cannot avoid that they watch them, unless you are sure they have parental control at home. Advantages : Fast and easy video sharing Privacy features Quick access to various videos Safe browsing Easy rating and feedback system Disadvantages : No parental control Limited copyright infringement notices Video length is limited to 10 minutes No restriction on comments (language, racial slurs, violent threats) Video size is limited to 1024 MB As we can observ youtube is a nice tool, but we need to be careful when using it.