YouTube is a free website with a bunch of funny stuff, but not all the stuff is appropriate. Luckily YouTube officials decide whether to keep the video, or flag it for inappropriate content. People on YouTube can flag videos too. If the video makes it past the officials and someone watches it and thinks it is inappropriate, then they can just click the little flag right to the suggestions and above the comments. The problem is that when YOU flag it, it does not go completely away. Then the only ones who can watch it is the person you uploaded the video, officials, and other people with an account to YouTube that have signed in.
Some of my favorite appropriate channels are the computernerd01, all4tubekids, realannoyingorange and barelypolitical are all YouTube channels that funny and yet appropriate for tweens.
Thecomputernerd01 and BarelyPolitical are all about taking hit songs and turning them into their own funny parodies. Barely Political has four awesome shows to check out: Batman, Key of Awesome, Autotune the News, and Barely Guys.
Realannoyingorange is basically, well, a really annoying orange who sits in a kitchen while new kinds of fruits and veggies come in, and the orange annoys them and at the end of the episode, the new fruit or vegetable gets cut in by a knife.
all4tubekids is about these 3 little girls who show funny home videos, just like “America’s Funniest Home Videos” on ABC.
Bye!
-- Owen, 12
Parent to Parent note from Julie: YouTube is fascinating, kind of scary, and definitely entertaining. Each parent has a different tolerance threshold for the "no-no's" found on YouTube; your decision is final. I personally teach my kids about trust and allow them on YouTube with my fingers crossed and on certain channels, like the ones subscribed to on My Shiny Monkey TV (our blog's YouTube channel). Bottom line: What bugs me most about YouTube are not the videos, but the obscenities laced through the comments. I tell my kids not to read the comments or scroll through them, but... YouTubers beware, there you have it.
8 comments:
hurray my 1st post! :)
Owen, we LOVE the annoying orange! But I'll have Ethan and Ben check out the other ones you mentioned.
Nice job Owen!!
Owen, Mr. Bob here (a colleague of you Mom's) - nice post! Keep up the good work. One day I'll have to check out reallyannoyingorange! - - RAS
Way to go on your first blog post Owen! Keep it up! If you and Olivia keep going, you'll one day take over your mom's company! :)
Marisa
Good job on your first blog post!
i think you are the youngest blogger i know. very proud of you to put your thoughts and info out there. maybe you will inspire me to finally start a blog. i DO have a lot to say on a lot of things...i find youtube fascinating and scary at times. freedom of information is definitely a good thing but sometimes there is just too much MISinformation and it is hard to know what is what. keep up the posting!
Well said, young man!
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