GP Blog question

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

From 2006 onwards, YouTube has become a phenomenon. Video clips on random issues can be viewed by people for free. Not even is registration needed to view the video clips. Hence as more people frequent this site, advertising companies see the great opportunity to advertise their products on YouTube. After all, YouTube receives 20 million visitors every month.However, the rising popularity of YouTube has also made it the centre of criticisms. Many people believed that YouTube has no ethics and that it has been created for the sole purpose of entertainment and money. I agree to this because the YouTube effect has created many confusion and propaganda.Many of the video clips are posted by individuals acting on their own. In the process, inaccurate infomation is disseminated. For example, there is a video clip on health issues like encouraging women to do a monthly self-exam for breast cancer. In which the message sent to the public is in the form of a hip-hop song. However, a researcher said that many of the new therapies touted were unreliable and unscientific. One clip even attribute breast cancer to abortion.

There are also random video clips like a baby laughing or a grandfather telling his life stories. Such videos are mainly for entertainment purposes. For videos which touch on political issues are also unreliable. Many videos could be produced so as to manipulate public opinion. How will we know that, for example, a video showing a Chinese shooting a Japanese is true, when actually the video is produced by the Japanese to gain people's sympathy? The YouTube effect has hence brought about mixed feelings. It is hard to know what to believe. This is a problem about ethics, where moral principles are concerned.

In any case, I think YouTube is definitely not a site for serious work. It is fine to browse the videos but the general public should be aware of the issues and not be easly manipulated.