I Love YouTube, I Hate YouTube
Everyone has something that consumes them to such a degree that they can waste hours and not even know it. For me, it’s YouTube.com. I love the seemingly endless piles of entertainment, and I hate it for the exact same reason. The kiss of death to my personal productivity is an email from a friend with a line such as, “Hey, you really have to check out this YouTube video.” If I follow the link, I’m almost certain to get sucked into the black hole called YouTube.
Just the other day I was finishing up a few emails before heading to bed when I saw a new message from my brother. It was only 9:30 PM so I had plenty of time to check out the link he sent to this instructional guitar video:
Okay, cool I’ve always liked that song. Of course I couldn’t resist the other videos I noticed in the scrolling sidebar. Before I knew it I found this amazing guitar clip:
Wow! That was amazing. I wonder if that guy has a CD. Off to Google for a small break and search, search, search. Wait a second I wonder what I could find in the way of drums on YouTube?
Amazing! Terry Bozio and Chad Wackerman two of my favorite drummers. How I got from drummers to this next clip completely escapes me but I had a serious laugh when I found it:
Suddenly I realize, it’s very quiet in the house. All of the lights are off except for the one where I’m sitting. Holy smokes! It’s 12 midnight! YouTube I hate you! But I do have time for one more video, which is probably something similar to what this guy said, “Just one more wave.” And one more wave is probably all you got.
on August 7th, 2007 at 11:51 am
Ah, I too have become memorized watching YouTube. I go there just to look at one specific clip and find myself following a thread of other clips that have no relevance to my original reason for going to YouTube in the first place.