Personally, I find YouTube to be quite entertaining and useful - it's great for settling those nagging questions or bets at house parties! I was recently at a friend's housewarming party, and she had a few people there who were in Canada to study English. One Canadian and one young man from Chile were able to "bond" over their mutual love of soccer - they spent the evening showing each other YouTube clips of some of the most amazing soccer plays ever - despite a limited ability to communicate in the same language! Even the other day at the library, co-workers were discussing a customer who asked for the music to the opening song of the Friendly Giant. A quick search in YouTube brought up the song, plus its full name and credits! Whenever I am learning new rhymes for children's programs and I get stuck on a tune, I go to YouTube first to see if I can find it there. Often there is a children's choir performing the song, and it's just what I need to solidify the tune in my head. You could definitely waste time on YouTube if you're not careful, but I believe it's a great way for people to be creative and share videos.
As for Flickr, I wasn't as familiar with the site as I was with YouTube. As far as I know, most of my friends don't have Flickr accounts but use Facebook to share photos with each other. Still, I liked being able to search for photos by tags on Flickr, and it was great that there are so many public photos that you can browse. I enjoyed looking at photos of vacation spots I've been to, as well as searching the Basset Hound group for photos of my favourite dog breed! An advanced search option would have been nice, since most of my searches brought up thousands of photos, and it would have been nice to narrow my search to topics AND locations. I am curious, if these photos are public, if they can be used in presentations and such, as long as credit is given to the source? Otherwise, I'm not sure on how useful Flickr would be for me, unless my friends all suddenly got accounts. I enjoyed searching for photos, but I still use Facebook as my photo sharing social media site.
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