In my opinion, the most successful way to present a blog entirely about YouTube, I should create my own YouTube account. I also though, I would invite you along for the ride. As I am not the most computer savvy college student, I thought it may be a bit entertaining.
To begin with, I went to the YouTube website, and in the upper righthand corner there is a link that says sign up. Alright, I think I can handle this so far. To begin with you simply have to fill out some basic information such as your age, sex, and location. As well as read and comply with the terms of service.
Next step- Create a user name. Through my experiences of cruising YouTube I have seen some rather interesting user names. Names like; ILUVJONASBROS, or QTPIE18, and other names paying tribute to pop stars, athletes, other various celebrities, and even different political affiliations. I'm not sure how much use I will get out of my YouTube account later on in life (and because it's free to create one, I could always choose something else) I chose NewTube442 as my user name. Probably self explanitory since I'm new to YouTube and our communications class is Comm 442.
Actually signing up for YouTube was much easier than I thought it would be. After filling out the basic form, I was just asked to check my e-mail address and confirm everything before my account was finalized.
Once I recieved my e-mail welcoming me to the YouTube community, I was given a link to my home page where I can edit my personal settings and create a user profile. I created a very basic profile that did not disclose much information about myself, and slightly introduced what I was even trying to do with my account. One thing I found interesting was that you cannot upload a photo on your account until you have been a user for over 48 hours.
Now that my account has been created I'm even more intrigued by YouTube. It's sort of like a MySpace on internet infused crack. You're given the opportunity to tell other people about yourself as well as post your favorite music, and send each other messages. But along with all of this you can post and watch videos as well...
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I found this really interesting! I thought since you said you were on YouTube all the time, you would have done this long ago. I know, bad to make assumptions. ;) I am curious as to before, how did you save your favorites to share with others? Or was it simply just watching to pass the time and sharing it with others wasn't a big deal to you? Sorry, I am not all that familiar with YouTube so maybe you can do all this without an account. I just had to mention how intrigued I was that you just set one up. I look forward to learning more about YouTube through you! :)
cool. I do have a YouTube account as well but have never posted anything. That should maybe be my next goal. Congrats on the new account. You are legit.
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