Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Youtube Anyone?
This is my first term at BYU and as a freshman I am living on campus in the dorms. One of my roommates made an interesting discovery just the other night: Youtube is blocked on campus. She expressed her frustration because she does not have an ipod, did not get to bring her computer with her itunes account on it, and now, with the abcense of youtube, she has no way of listening to her music. I understood her frustration because, while i have some of my music on itunes and on my ipod, there is a significant portion of the music I prefer that I dont have. My solution to this problem was my youtube account, where I could create playlists of my favorite music. For me, I use music to help me relax and one of my playlists on youtube was solely comprised of hymns from the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. I listened to this everytime I felt stressed or when I needed to relax. This is very necessary as a college student because it often brings a lot of stress. However, with youtube being blocked on campus I dont have a lot of peaceful music to listen to. While I understand there is some inappropriate material/music videos/content on youtube there are some very good and wholesome videos at the same time. For instance, right before I came this summer, an announcement was made in the Relief Society of my home ward that there is now on youtube a site that has different conference talks and addresses from general authorities. And as far as the bad content goes, it seems that one could find just as much inappropriate material on Facebook as on Youtube, but Facebook is definitely not blocked.
Youtube Anyone?
2009-06-23T18:37:00-06:00
Kindal McGill
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