mustang1
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- London, UK
Not what, but why do you watch YouTube?
I use it as a learning tool but more frequently, just as a "get away from life for a while" thing. It got me thinking as to pre-YouTube days when people would just sit in front of the TV and watch rubbish regardless of whether they liked it or not. Now, they have YouTube; at least they (and I) can watch videos upon videos of things I'm interested in.
Some time ago I noticed I just started watching anything on youtube and I had to get myself off the "stop watching crap" syndrome that people used to say about TV. I would sit there and watch stuff, it would then recommend a new video I might be interested in, so I'd watch that. Ooh, i have 3 minutes to kill, let me find a 3 minute video. Oh that looks interesting but thats 15 minutes long, let me put that into my "Watch Later" feed and before I knew it, my Watch Later feed had over 100 videos I was waiting to watch and I only ended up watching a few of them. But I found myself not concentrating on the video and just waiting to watch the next one.
It irked me. So I started unsubscribing to channels and removing videos from Watch Later. Slowly over time I found myself subscribing to channels again and need to break out of that habit once more. So, why do you watch YouTube?
Caveat: TikTok, oh how i sympathise with people addicted to that! And also YouTube Shorts....
I use it as a learning tool but more frequently, just as a "get away from life for a while" thing. It got me thinking as to pre-YouTube days when people would just sit in front of the TV and watch rubbish regardless of whether they liked it or not. Now, they have YouTube; at least they (and I) can watch videos upon videos of things I'm interested in.
Some time ago I noticed I just started watching anything on youtube and I had to get myself off the "stop watching crap" syndrome that people used to say about TV. I would sit there and watch stuff, it would then recommend a new video I might be interested in, so I'd watch that. Ooh, i have 3 minutes to kill, let me find a 3 minute video. Oh that looks interesting but thats 15 minutes long, let me put that into my "Watch Later" feed and before I knew it, my Watch Later feed had over 100 videos I was waiting to watch and I only ended up watching a few of them. But I found myself not concentrating on the video and just waiting to watch the next one.
It irked me. So I started unsubscribing to channels and removing videos from Watch Later. Slowly over time I found myself subscribing to channels again and need to break out of that habit once more. So, why do you watch YouTube?
Caveat: TikTok, oh how i sympathise with people addicted to that! And also YouTube Shorts....