Saturday, January 3, 2009

November 2020?

Its early November in the year 2020 and your heading to the polls on election day. You have done your research and are pretty comfortable with one candidate. The other candidate has most of your views and would try to do somethings you agree with.... but if only they didn't have that YouTube video you would have voted for them.

Yes it is only a matter of time before our politicians will have to explain all their stupid YouTube videos they made when they were in high school showing them acting like total fools. When they thought that everyone in the world wanted to seem them "chug that beer in like 20 seconds dude" or "do a thing like Jackass, but different". How much will that effect how politics is played out? Sure we have heard from say Barack Obama that when he was a teenager that he experimented with marijuana. Okay he was a kid, stupid thing that many of us do, fine its cool... but. What if a video of him actually smoking popped up on YouTube? Would seeing be a huge difference than just hearing? Will maybe it become a socially acceptable thing? Will a moderator as a group of politicians "who has made a stupid YouTube video?" and when they raise their hands get applause like with "who has smoked pot?"

This is the problem the YouTube generation is most likely going to have to face. When it seems like any idiot with a webcam thinks that if they do some dance or rap will make them famous. When any group of kids with a camera feel the urge to film crimes and mean things they do to people. When will it all come around to bite them in the ass? Will they be applying for a job somewhere and along with the drug and background check the employer does a YouTube check? All I'm saying is..... how much will YouTube screw over our society in the future? You know like more than it already has....

This proves my point exactly, please watch YouTube Contest Challenges Users To Make A 'Good' Video

2 comments:

  1. Haha, great post! Totally true- youtube is ruining america! Good thing you don't have any embarassing videos on youtube!

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  2. Never thought of you tube that way!

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